SmartMIB Small Solution:

Active MAC Based Traffic Accounting

(SM-SmallSol029)

Solution Introduction & Overview:

This Small management solution provides an application that provides accounting information for IP traffic based on the source and destination MAC addresses on local area network (LAN) interfaces. More specifically it monitors and accounts for the number of Packets and Bytes of traffic switched by each of the monitored Routing devices.

The main goal of the management process is to specifically count the switched traffic corresponding with a specific MAC address. The collected data is presented in both number of Packets and number of Bytes.

The solution defines a main and transient SOSL scripts that learns the set of MAC addresses detected and on which device interface and finally on which direction of traffic associated with each detected MAC address before collecting and calculating the Packets and Bytes counts.

The solution presentation is based on the CISCO-IP-STATS MIB which includes the objects necessary to maintain the above described accounting statistics.

The default reports for this small solution are shown below;

Interface-To-MAC Map Report

The administrator has the choice to graph all of the following monitored objects:

• cipMacSwitchedPkts: representing the number of Packets traffic load associated with each MAC address.

• cipMacSwitchedBytes: representing the number of Bytes traffic load associated with each MAC address.
   

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