Mikrotik cacti bandwith in Megabits

[stefki]

Hello all , I am new to cacti monitoring, yesterday I just instaled latest version 1.2.16, it's very nice for monitoring , but I'ts bit hard to setup propertly.

I have mikrotik on my network and I get installed the plugin and the template .

I have added the device successfully, I have added graph to monitor my ether1 WAN interface. I wait for few minutes boom I get the graph but unfortunately I get wrong values in Bytes, instead in MegaBits.

This is the bandwidth on my mikrotik ruter.

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and this is the wrong data on my cacti graph

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[cigamit]

You just need to select the Bits graph from the dropdown, instead of the Bytes

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[stefki]

cigamit: Thank you, I will try now that, which device template is best to use for RouterOS v6.48.2 ?

Generic SNMP Device ,Mikrotik template 0.8.8f or mikrotik plugin ?

[cigamit]

Device Templates are just collections of graphs, so they don't mean much, there are just there for convenience. I just create my own Device Template for my Mikrotiks, and assign the graphs I want to it. These the graphs I use. Not every Mikrotik can utilize all those (like the Wireless). I just disassociate any graph from a host that can't utilize that graph.

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[stefki]

@cigamit: thank you so much, I really appreciate it for your help.

Now monitoring works good
One more question how to add comment or description to that "ether1" interface on my graph.
Example
"ether1-WAN interface"

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[cigamit]

You just need to modify the Order on the Data Query
Data Collection > Data Queries > "SNMP - Interface Statistics" > click on Associated Graph Template "In/Out Bits (64-bit Counters)" > Change the order of the Suggested Values. If you don't see the one you want, you can add it below that one.

So something like this might work

Code: Select all

|host_description| - Traffic - |query_ifName| (|query_ifDescr|)

Move the one you want to the top.