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    Calculating Network Backbone Bandwidth Requirements

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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender
      last edited by

      A better way to ask your question might be - what tools do you use to find the current state of the network? This way we aren't worried about a solution or products, but instead trying to determine if there even is a real issue.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403 @Dashrender
        last edited by

        @dashrender ok. What tools do you use to find the current state of the network?

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        • dafyreD
          dafyre
          last edited by

          Any kind of bandwidth graphing tool coughZabbix*cough that will let you monitor the network switches for bandwidth, packet loss, and ping times.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @dafyre
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            @dafyre said in Calculating Network Backbone Bandwidth Requirements:

            Any kind of bandwidth graphing tool coughZabbix*cough that will let you monitor the network switches for bandwidth, packet loss, and ping times.

            So much effort to get that going again. . . didn't yourself or @JaredBusch write a guide on standing Zabbix up?

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            • dafyreD
              dafyre @DustinB3403
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              @dustinb3403 said in Calculating Network Backbone Bandwidth Requirements:

              @dafyre said in Calculating Network Backbone Bandwidth Requirements:

              Any kind of bandwidth graphing tool coughZabbix*cough that will let you monitor the network switches for bandwidth, packet loss, and ping times.

              So much effort to get that going again. . . didn't yourself or @JaredBusch write a guide on standing Zabbix up?

              @JaredBusch wrote the easy to follow one.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                No tools needed most of the time. Your backbone needs to be upgraded when the existing backbone is saturated to the point of impacting system performance. Human observation and the reporting from your existing switches will tell you that.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  If you only have dumb backbone components, then it is just intuition.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    @scottalanmiller said in Calculating Network Backbone Bandwidth Requirements:

                    If you only have dumb backbone components, then it is just intuition.

                    Yeah, this is what I have relied upon mostly.

                    Had a location that had a broadcast storm whenever the doc was in the office. Turned out the NIC on his PC had failed and was bringing the network to its knees.

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                    • coliverC
                      coliver @DustinB3403
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                      @dustinb3403 said in Calculating Network Backbone Bandwidth Requirements:

                      @dafyre said in Calculating Network Backbone Bandwidth Requirements:

                      Any kind of bandwidth graphing tool coughZabbix*cough that will let you monitor the network switches for bandwidth, packet loss, and ping times.

                      So much effort to get that going again. . . didn't yourself or @JaredBusch write a guide on standing Zabbix up?

                      Not really that much effort. It's quick to setup and you can probably find an snmp template for your switches.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
                        last edited by

                        It's a Zabbix kind of day around here.

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                        • Mike DavisM
                          Mike Davis
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                          As a MSP, when you walk in and see unmanaged switches under desks, you kind of know what needs to happen. 🙂

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                          • Mike DavisM
                            Mike Davis
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                            Last week I was onsite and uncovered a 100 Mb switch. The bonus was the 20 year old print controller hooked to it.

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