Link utilization

in CCDA & CCDP
Hi everyone.
I was monitoring our network for a while using Solarwinds.
Our network is a quite big. Links in the dist to core are all fiber configured for 1Gbps.\
Solarwinds shows that we are only using, on avrg, 30Mbps of the 1Gbps. MAX recorded is 50Mbps. links Utilization are less than 5%.
is this a normal case for an enterprise network?
are we under utilizing our links ?
Is this a normal case for a health network?
Plus some rumors says that we will upgrade the network soon to be full 10Gbps in the core and dist area. If we use only less than 5% out of 1Gbps, I believe it is sufficient to keep it as is.
Thanks in advance for your comments.
I was monitoring our network for a while using Solarwinds.
Our network is a quite big. Links in the dist to core are all fiber configured for 1Gbps.\
Solarwinds shows that we are only using, on avrg, 30Mbps of the 1Gbps. MAX recorded is 50Mbps. links Utilization are less than 5%.
is this a normal case for an enterprise network?
are we under utilizing our links ?
Is this a normal case for a health network?
Plus some rumors says that we will upgrade the network soon to be full 10Gbps in the core and dist area. If we use only less than 5% out of 1Gbps, I believe it is sufficient to keep it as is.
Thanks in advance for your comments.
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On the subject of upgrading to 10G, we just upgraded our lab to a 10G connection that they just had to have. The highest utilization on the link has been like 50 Mbs. It sounds cool that we have 10G though
This is what happens when people with no real clue make the decisions. Oh well, plenty of room for growth I guess....
Any clue on how to check if solarwinds reporting is correct?
Go to your devices and look at the utilization during peak times. Or you could use another system like Cacti and make sure they report the same utilization back.
We tested the link by maxing it out, verified our results with a couple other methods, and compared those results to solarwinds.
Thanks for sharing for that info dude... we are about to convince managements to forget about solarwinds package
If you're primarily a windows shop, take a look at PRTG. We've played around with it, and had good results, but management ultimately decided they'd rather pay our developers to actually develop instead of read blogs all day
I´ve played around a bit with PRTG as well, but I´d like to know something, it seems like adding the devices and the sensors is kind of time consuming, is there a way I can do that, like a templates where I just change the IP address?
I can´t do auto-discover, and adding lots of hosts, and then the sensors to the hosts, looks kind of painfull...