Re: [squid-users] snmp to find

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 06:29:31PM +0800, Tay Teck Wee wrote:
> I am trying to find the number of clients(uniq IP
> addr) accessing my squid2.5stable3 using snmp at 5
> mins interval polling. After some searching, I know
> that the cachemgr "Number of clients accessing cache"
> is a cumulative figure. But if I were to use snmp?
>
> from the MIB.txt that comes with this stable release:
>
> cacheClients OBJECT-TYPE
> SYNTAX Gauge32
> MAX-ACCESS read-only
> STATUS current
> DESCRIPTION
> " Number of clients accessing
> cache "
> ::= { cacheProtoAggregateStats 15 }
>
>
> Is the output a cumulative number from startup or a
> 'snapshot' number at the particular moment of polling?
> Or is it a 5min/60min average kind of stats?

IMHO it is an absolute number since sometime (perhaps since startup).
I poll these values with Cricket and use a RRD type of DERIVE. That
means it reads the cacheClient value every x minutes and divides it by
x*60. That gives you the clients per second.

Regards
 Christoph

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