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I got 2 diff version of NMS setup in vmware exsi, version 5.7 and version 6.4.
how come the result was different.

5.7

6.4

Hi John 

there may be different reasons why those two charts are different:

• Different polling times: even if both tools are monitoring every 300 seconds, the exact time the ping is sent will be different, and that can return different values
• Different paths: two NMS systems will have two different IP addresses, and that might impact reachability to the target
• Different NMS configuration:  in Cluster Manager -> Cluster Settings -> ICMP configuration, Always 100% Availability setting will show different behaviour on the graph
• Different ICMP plugin config at the device level: different packet sizes, packet numbers, packet intervals and even different IP addresses that we are pingin will impact the graph.

I'm sure I missed something else, but among those four reasons (or a combination of them) there must be the answer to your question.

I got 2 diff version of NMS setup in vmware exsi, version 5.7 and version 6.4.
how come the result was different.

5.7

6.4

Hi Raul,

Thank you so much for the answer.
Could you please provide more details on the 'ICMP configuration' and the 'Always 100% Availability setting'?
What does this mean?

Thanks,
John-

Hi John 

there may be different reasons why those two charts are different:

• Different polling times: even if both tools are monitoring every 300 seconds, the exact time the ping is sent will be different, and that can return different values
• Different paths: two NMS systems will have two different IP addresses, and that might impact reachability to the target
• Different NMS configuration:  in Cluster Manager -> Cluster Settings -> ICMP configuration, Always 100% Availability setting will show different behaviour on the graph
• Different ICMP plugin config at the device level: different packet sizes, packet numbers, packet intervals and even different IP addresses that we are pingin will impact the graph.

I'm sure I missed something else, but among those four reasons (or a combination of them) there must be the answer to your question.

I got 2 diff version of NMS setup in vmware exsi, version 5.7 and version 6.4.
how come the result was different.

5.7

6.4