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When using the SwiMon, how much network load is caused by monitoring device connections?

As an example of actual measurements, in a network with approximately 100 connected devices, when a Cisco Catalyst 2970G is registered as an SwiMon monitoring device and data is collected using the SNMPv2 protocol, a single monitoring cycle generates 26 packets, totaling approximately 7.5Kbytes of traffic. Consequently, the network load in such an environment is as follows:

 

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   Monitoring interval   |   Bandwidth usage
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        2 minutes        | Approximately 512 [bps]
        3 minutes        | Approximately 341 [bps]
        5 minutes        | Approximately 205 [bps]
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