Cacti

I assume you are trying to monitor bandwidth as it relates to a single shared uplink (to a server or the internet or something) and not just the combined "any to any" sum of all possible traffic to all possible hosts, right? If so, why not just use Netflow data from the switch or router?

My group would like to setup utilization polling on all switchports of about 12,000 switches. The goal is to offload almost all interface polling from Orion and free it up to primarily handle alerting and traps for the network infrastructure itself, while at the same time gaining per-port historical...