JP5128556B2 - Traffic information collecting apparatus, traffic information collecting method and program thereof - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for collecting traffic statistical information from devices constituting a network using SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).

  In an IP (Internet Protocol) network, traffic statistical information (traffic information) of packets passing through this device is stored in each network device such as a router and a switch constituting the IP network. Use these traffic information to grasp the network usage status, enhance communication facilities such as communication lines and communication equipment, and use it for traffic engineering, etc., to improve network usage efficiency and maintain and improve service levels. be able to. For this reason, a traffic collection system is installed in the operation center of the network, and traffic information is collected periodically.

  There are two methods for collecting the traffic information: (1) a method in which the system periodically accesses each network device to collect statistical information, and (2) a method in which the network device notifies the management system of the traffic information. There are two ways. There is a method using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) as a representative method of the former. In this method, the system grasps the transition of traffic by periodically collecting traffic information of each network device. The latter representative method is a method using NetFlow (registered trademark). In this method, a traffic flow to be collected by each network device is defined, and each network device notifies the system of the collected information.

  SNMP is a communication protocol used to acquire network information from each network device. The entity that collects information is called an SNMP manager, and the information acquisition target such as a network device is called an SNMP agent. Various information is stored in a virtual database Mangement Information Base (MIB) inside the SNMP agent. Object ID (hereinafter referred to as OID) is assigned to each piece of data included in the MIB. This OID is address information indicating the location of each data in the network device. In order for the SNMP manager to acquire network information from the SNMP agent, the SNMP manager first transmits an SNMP GetRequest and GetnextRequest packet specifying the OID of the network information to be acquired to the SNMP agent. In response to this, the SNMP manager receives data included in the reply SNMP GetResponse from the SNMP agent.

  Each network device constituting the network generally has statistical information on the contents processed by the network device for each packet of transmission, reception, discard, and the load on the network device. It holds information indicating the status. The information indicating the load state includes CPU (Central Processing Unit) usage rate, memory usage rate, disk usage rate or related information (for example, information indirectly indicating the amount of installed memory, the amount of memory in use, etc.) . These pieces of information are recorded as MIBs in the network device in which the SNMP agent is set, and the system can be acquired using SNMP by specifying the corresponding OID.

  A system equipped with such a traffic information collection function functions as an SNMP manager and periodically (periodically) accesses the network device that is an SNMP agent, so that traffic information, CPU, memory, disk usage rate, etc. collect. Here, the collected traffic information is stored in a storage medium in the system. The system then processes the collected traffic information, such as calculating the difference from the previous collected value, calculating the total value or percentage with other collected items, and the like. The system can grasp the usage status of the entire network and the load status of each network device by performing such processing on all the collection items of all the network devices to be collected.

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), Case, J., M. Fedor, M. Schoffstall and J. Davin, "The Simple Network Management Protocol", STD 15, RFC 1157, May 1990.

  However, in order for the system to collect traffic information from each device of the network using SNMP, it is necessary to collect a huge amount of information. Here, if polling is performed for each device for each traffic collection item, a communication time (Round Trip Time (RTT)) is required each time the polling is performed, thereby reducing the efficiency of traffic information collection. Therefore, it is preferable to include as many collection items as possible in one request for each device.

  However, when the number of designated OIDs in the request increases, the processing load of the device that processes it increases. For this reason, the processing time per request becomes long, and the RTT of one request becomes long. Here, because SNMP communication is implemented using unreliable UDP communication, a timeout value is set for the transmitted request in preparation for a communication error such as packet loss during communication, and the specified time If a response is not obtained, it is generally re-transmitted to achieve the purpose. If the number of designated OIDs in one request becomes too large, a response cannot be obtained within the timeout time, and it is necessary to retransmit the request packet. When packet retransmission occurs, a much longer processing time is required than when packet retransmission does not occur, and the efficiency of the traffic collection function is greatly reduced. In order to efficiently perform traffic collection, it is necessary to maximize the number of designated OIDs in one packet within a range where no timeout occurs. The increase in processing time on the device side, which is a factor that increases the RTT of the traffic collection packet, differs depending on the SNMP packet processing capability of that model and the load state of the device. Therefore, the optimum value for the specified number of OIDs is determined on the manager side. A traffic collection system cannot know in advance. For this reason, the method set in the prior traffic collection system cannot efficiently collect traffic using the optimum value.

  In addition, network traffic tends to increase in the long term, and the load on the node gradually increases. As a result, SNMP request processing time tends to increase. If the number of OIDs is fixedly specified in one request, a timeout may occur after sending those SNMP requests, and it is necessary to review the number of OIDs included in one packet. An object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems and efficiently collect traffic information from each network device within a range in which a timeout does not occur.

In order to solve the above-described problem, the present invention is a traffic information collection device that collects traffic information from a plurality of network devices in a network using SNMP, and for each piece of network device identification information, The storage unit storing the collection target item information indicating the OID list of the OID indicating the traffic information storage area, and the collection target item information with reference to the instruction from the packet processing control unit, for each network device A packet creation unit that selects a predetermined number of OIDs of traffic information to be collected from the network device from the OID list, creates a traffic information acquisition request including the selected OID, and inputs / outputs the created traffic information acquisition request. Packet transmission to each network device via A packet receiving unit that receives a response to the traffic information acquisition request from each network device, measures an RTT value that is a time from when the traffic information acquisition request is transmitted until the response is received, and a packet And a packet processing control unit that determines the number of OIDs to be included in the traffic information acquisition request. The packet processing control unit determines that the RTT value for the network device measured by the packet receiving unit is a first threshold value α If the RTT value is smaller than the second threshold β, the packet creation unit is instructed to reduce the number of OIDs included in the traffic information acquisition request transmitted to the network device in the next period. The number of OIDs included in the traffic information acquisition request transmitted to the network device in the next cycle The threshold value α is larger than the threshold value β and smaller than the time-out time from when the traffic information acquisition request is transmitted until the traffic information acquisition request is received. It is characterized by.

  By doing in this way, the traffic information collection device can efficiently collect the traffic information from each network device as long as timeout does not occur.

  Further, the packet processing control unit in the traffic information collection device of the present invention uses the maximum value of the RTT value in the cycle among the RTT values of the response to the traffic information acquisition request to the network device measured by the packet receiving unit. The first threshold value α and the second threshold value β are compared, and the number of OIDs included in the traffic information acquisition request transmitted to the network device in the next period is determined.

  In this way, the traffic information collection device uses the maximum value of the RTT value to be included in the traffic information acquisition request even when the RTT value of the network information varies depending on the traffic congestion status in the network. Therefore, the probability that a traffic information reception timeout will occur in the traffic information collection device can be reduced. That is, the traffic information collection device can make a safe determination when determining the number of OIDs based on the RTT value.

  Further, the packet processing control unit in the traffic information collection device of the present invention has a maximum value of the RTT value when the maximum value of the RTT value related to the network device measured by the packet reception unit is larger than the first threshold value α. As the difference between the first threshold value and the first threshold value is larger, the reduction range of the number of OIDs included in the traffic information acquisition request for the network device is increased.

  That is, the smaller the maximum value of the RTT value of the traffic information is smaller than the first threshold value α, the more the network information collection device has a margin in the number of OIDs included in one network information acquisition request. Therefore, in such a case, the network information collecting apparatus can increase the number of OIDs included in one network information acquisition request significantly, and can quickly and efficiently increase the number of appropriate OIDs (to the extent that no timeout occurs). The number of OIDs that can be collected) can be set in the network information acquisition request.

  According to the present invention, the traffic information collection device can efficiently collect the traffic information from each network device within a range in which timeout does not occur.

1 is a system configuration example including a traffic information collection device according to the present embodiment. It is a block diagram of the traffic information collection device of FIG. It is a figure which shows the process sequence of the traffic information collection apparatus of FIG. It is the figure which showed notionally control of the number of OID by the traffic information collection apparatus of FIG.

  Hereinafter, modes for carrying out the present invention (hereinafter referred to as embodiments) will be described. First, an example of a system configuration including the traffic information collection device according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The system uses the network device 20 (20A, 20B, 20C, 20D, 20E) such as a router and a switch and the traffic information for collecting traffic information from the network device 20 using SNMP GetRequest (traffic information acquisition request). And a collection device 10. The traffic information is statistical information on the contents of processing performed on each packet transmitted / received by the network device 20 and information indicating the load state of the network device 20. The traffic information collection device 10 is connected to the network device 20 via an IP network. The traffic information collection device 10 stores, for each network device 20, a list (OID list) of traffic information OID (information indicating a storage area of traffic information) collected from the network device 20. The traffic information is acquired from each network device 20 with reference to this list. Here, the traffic information collection device 10 determines the number of traffic information collected from each network device 20 (the number of OIDs included in the SNMP GetRequest) as follows. Note that the threshold value α in the following description is a value smaller than the time from when the traffic information collection device 10 transmits a GetRequest from the network device 20 until the GetResponse from the network device 20 waits for timeout (that is, short). Time). Further, the threshold value β is set to a value smaller than the threshold value α. Further, the traffic information collection device 10 periodically executes the process of sending GetRequest → GetResponse to each network device 20. Here, GetRequest to be transmitted to the network device 20 in the period is divided into a plurality of parts and transmitted. This is for reliably obtaining desired network information from the network device 20.

  The traffic information collection device 10 transmits a GetRequest that lists OIDs indicating traffic information to be acquired to the network device 20 and receives a response (GetResponse) from the network device 20. At this time, the time (RTT value) from when GetRequest is transmitted to the network device 20 until GetResponse is received for this GetRequest is measured. When the RTT value is lower than the lower threshold (threshold β), that is, when the network device 20 receives a response to GetRequest in a relatively short time, the GetRequest transmitted to the network device 20 in the next cycle Increase the number of OIDs to include. In other words, the traffic information collection device 10 acquires more traffic information in the next cycle if it can acquire more traffic information from the network device 20 by GetRequest.

  On the other hand, the traffic information collection device 10 has a relatively long time until the RTT value until receiving GetResponse is higher than the upper threshold (threshold α), that is, the time until the traffic information collection device 10 receives a response to GetRequest. When it is long, the number of OIDs included in the GetRequest transmitted to the network device 20 is reduced in the next cycle. That is, since the number of OIDs included in GetRequest is too large, if there is a possibility of timeout, the number of OIDs included in GetRequest in the next cycle is reduced.

  Note that when the RTT value measured by the traffic information collection device 10 is less than or equal to the threshold value α and greater than or equal to the threshold value β, the traffic information collection device 10 does not change the number of OIDs included in the GetRequest. For example, the traffic information collection apparatus 10 sets an initial value (for example, one) as the number of OIDs included in GetRequest in the first cycle, and if the RTT value is smaller than the lower threshold (threshold β), the traffic information collection device 10 sets the number of OIDs. Increase it. Thereafter (for example, the fifth cycle), when the RTT value becomes larger than the upper limit threshold (threshold α), the number of OIDs included in the GetRequest transmitted in the next cycle (for example, the sixth cycle) is decreased. On the other hand, the traffic information collection device 10 uses the threshold values α and β as described above to dynamically change the number of OIDs per GetRequest packet for each network device 20 and improve the collection efficiency of traffic information. Can do.

<Configuration>
Next, the configuration of the traffic information collection device 10 will be described with reference to FIG. The traffic information collection device 10 is a computer that collects traffic information from each network device 20 by SNMP. Such a traffic information collection device 10 includes a storage unit 13, a processing unit 12, and an input / output unit 11. The storage unit 13 stores various types of information referred to when the traffic information collection device 10 collects traffic information. The processing unit 12 controls the entire traffic information collecting apparatus 10, and here, when the GetRequest is transmitted next based mainly on the RTT value when the GetResponse from the network apparatus 20 is received, Controls the number of OIDs included in GetRequest. The input / output unit 11 is an input / output interface that transmits a GetRequest to the network device 20 and receives a GetResponse from the network device 20 in response to the GetRequest.

  The storage unit 13 includes a storage medium such as a random access memory (RAM), a read only memory (ROM), a hard disk drive (HDD), and a flash memory. The processing unit 12 is realized by a program execution process by a CPU (Central Processing Unit) included in the traffic information collection device 10, a dedicated circuit, or the like. When the processing unit 12 is realized by a program execution process, the storage unit 13 stores a program for realizing the function of the processing unit 12. The input / output unit 11 includes a communication interface and an input / output interface that can communicate via an IP network.

  The storage unit 13 of the traffic information collection device 10 stores the collection target device information 131 and the collection target item information 132 in a predetermined area.

  The collection target device information 131 is information indicating the IP address of the network device 20 from which traffic information is collected, the SNMP community name necessary for logging in to the network device 20 and collecting the traffic information (table). 1).

The collection target item information 132 is information indicating information items collected from the network device 20 for each piece of identification information of the network device 20 that is a traffic information collection target. The information item here includes, for example, a list of OIDs indicating the storage location of traffic information in the network device 20 (see Table 2). For example, the traffic information collection device 10 indicates that traffic information is stored in the area of “OID ₁₀₀₁ , OID ₁₀₀₂ , OID ₁₀₀₃ ,..., OID _100X ” in the network device 20A. Further, the network device 20B indicates that traffic information is stored in an area of “OID ₂₀₀₁ , OID ₂₀₀₂ , OID ₂₀₀₃ ,..., OID _200Y ”. The information item may include key information for identifying the traffic information within the traffic information collecting apparatus 10.

  The processing unit 12 transmits a GetRequest (traffic information acquisition request) for collecting traffic information to the network device 20 and receives GetResponse including the traffic information of the network device 20 as a response. Further, when the processing unit 12 fails to receive the GetResponse from the network device 20 even after a predetermined time has elapsed since the GetRequest is transmitted, the processing unit 12 executes a timeout process for receiving the GetResponse from the network device 20. To do. That is, the process for receiving GetResponse from the network device 20 is terminated. Such a processing unit 12 includes a packet creation unit 121 that creates GetRequest (GetRequest packet), an SNMP packet transmission unit (packet transmission unit) 122 that transmits GetRequest, and an SNMP packet reception unit (packet reception unit) that receives GetResponse. ) 123 and a packet processing control unit 124 that controls each unit of the processing unit 12.

  The packet creation unit 121 creates a GetRequest based on an instruction from the packet processing control unit 124. That is, the packet creation unit 121 selects a predetermined number of OIDs from the OID list of the network device 20 in the collection target item information 132, and creates a GetRequest including the selected OID.

  The SNMP packet transmission unit 122 transmits the GetRequest created by the packet creation unit 121 to the network device 20 based on an instruction from the packet processing control unit 124. Here, when the GetRequest is transmitted, the IP address of the network device 20 that is the transmission destination of this GetRequest and the SNMP community name required for login are read from the collection target device information 131.

  The SNMP packet receiving unit 123 receives a response (GetResponse) to the GetRequest from each network device that has transmitted the GetRequest. Then, the time (RTT value) from when this GetResponse is transmitted until GetResponse is received is measured. The measured RTT value is output to the packet processing control unit 124. This RTT value is referred to when the SNMP packet transmission unit 122 determines the number of OIDs included in the GetRequest transmitted in the next cycle.

  The packet processing control unit 124 controls the packet creation unit 121, the SNMP packet transmission unit 122, and the SNMP packet reception unit 123. Further, when the SNMP packet receiving unit 123 fails to receive the GetResponse from the network device 20 even after a predetermined time has elapsed after the GetRequest is transmitted by the SNMP packet transmitting unit 122, the GetResponse from the network device 20 is not received. Execute receive timeout processing.

  Here, the packet processing control unit 124 makes the following determination using the RTT value measured by the SNMP packet receiving unit 123 and the threshold values α and β, and the packet creation unit 121 transmits a GetRequest using the result. The number of OIDs to be included is determined. Then, with reference to the collection target device information 131 and the collection target item information 132, a GetRequest creation instruction including OIDs of the determined number of OIDs is output to each network device 20. That is, when the RTT value of the network device 20 measured by the SNMP packet receiving unit 123 is larger than (1) the threshold value α, the packet processing control unit 124 sets the number of OIDs included in the GetRequest for the network device 20 to the previous time. A predetermined number (for example, m) is decreased from the number of OIDs included in the GetRequest transmitted in a cycle. On the other hand, (2) when smaller than the threshold value β, the number of OIDs included in the GetRequest for the network device 20 is increased by a predetermined number (for example, m) from the number of OIDs included in the GetRequest transmitted in the previous cycle. On the other hand, when the threshold value β ≦ the measured RTT value ≦ the threshold value α, the number of OIDs included when transmitting GetRequest is not changed.

  Note that the threshold value α <the timeout time set in the traffic information collecting apparatus 10 is set, and the threshold value α is, for example, about 70% of the timeout time. Further, the threshold value β is a value smaller than the threshold value α, and is, for example, about 30% of the timeout time. As a specific example, when the timeout time is “3 (s)”, the value of the threshold α is “2 (s)”, and the value of the threshold β is “1 (s)”.

  Here, the RTT value used by the packet processing control unit 124 for comparison with the threshold values α and β (particularly, the threshold value β) is, for example, the maximum RTT value of GetRequests transmitted to the same network device 20 in the cycle. Value. This is because if a value other than the maximum value among RTT values of GetRequests transmitted with the same number of OIDs is compared with a threshold value, a larger RTT value is measured in the next period, and a timeout may occur. Because.

<Processing procedure>
Next, the processing procedure of the traffic information collection device 10 of FIG. 2 will be described using FIG. 3 with reference to FIG. First, when receiving an input of a traffic information collection instruction via the input / output unit 11, the packet processing control unit 124 of the traffic information collection device 10 sets the number of OIDs included in 1 GetRequest to the packet creation unit 121 (S1). . Here, the initial value of the number of OIDs included in 1 GetRequest is preferably a small value (for example, 1). This is because if the initial value of the number of OIDs is too large, the possibility of a timeout occurring increases.

  Next, the packet processing control unit 124 reads the OID list of the network device 20 indicated by the collection target device information 131 from the collection target item information 132, and divides this OID list (S2). That is, the OID group shown in this OID list is divided by a predetermined number of OIDs, and the OIDs included in 1 GetRequest are determined. Then, the packet processing control unit 124 outputs a GetRequest creation instruction indicating the information of the OID included in 1 GetRequest to the packet creation unit 121. When the OID list is not divisible by a predetermined number of OIDs, the last GetRequest includes the OID of the fraction that was not divisible.

  Next, the packet creation unit 121 creates a GetRequest packet (GetRequest) including the OID instructed by the packet processing control unit 124 (S3). Then, the SNMP packet transmitting unit 122 transmits this GetRequest packet to the network device 20 via the input / output unit 11 and the IP network (S4). Here, it is assumed that the SNMP packet transmission unit 122 logs in to the network device 20 that is the transmission destination of the GetRequest packet by using the information of the SNMP community indicated in the collection target device information 131 when transmitting the GetRequest packet.

  Thereafter, when receiving the GetResponse packet for the GetRequest packet transmitted in S4 via the IP network and the input / output unit 11, the SNMP packet receiving unit 123 measures the RTT value until the GetResponse packet is received (S5). Then, the traffic information included in the GetResponse packet and the measured RTT value are output to the packet processing control unit 124.

  Next, the packet processing control unit 124 stores the traffic information and the RTT value output from the SNMP packet receiving unit 123 in a predetermined area of the storage unit 13. When the RTT value output from the SNMP packet receiving unit 123 (if a plurality of GetResponses for the same GetRequest has already been received, the maximum value among the RTT values) is smaller than the threshold β (Yes in S6). In the next cycle, the number of OIDs included in 1GetRequest transmitted to the network device 20 is increased by m (S9). Then, returning to S2, the packet processing control unit 124 divides the OID list by using the increased number of OIDs as the number of OIDs included in 1GetRequest (S2).

  On the other hand, when the RTT value output from the SNMP packet receiving unit 123 is larger than the threshold value α (No in S6 → Yes in S7), the packet processing control unit 124 reduces the number of OIDs included in 1GetRequest in the next cycle by m. (S10). Then, returning to S2, the packet control processing unit 124 divides the OID list with the increased number of OIDs (S2).

  Further, when the RTT value output from the SNMP packet receiving unit 123 is not less than the threshold β (No in S6) and not more than the threshold α (No in S7), the packet processing control unit 124 includes it in 1GetRequest in the next cycle. The number of OIDs is kept as it is (S8). Then, returning to S2, the packet processing control unit 124 divides the OID list while maintaining the previously set number of OIDs (S2). The traffic information collection device 10 executes the above processing for all the network devices 20 (described in the collection target device information 131) that are transmission targets of GetRequest, and includes each network device 20 in 1GetResponse in the next cycle. Determine the number of OIDs.

  According to the traffic information collecting apparatus 10 described above, when the traffic information collecting apparatus 10 collects traffic information from each network apparatus 20, the time (RTT value) required for the collection is lower than the lower limit as shown in FIG. If it is smaller than the threshold (β), the number of OIDs included in 1GetRequest transmitted in the next cycle is increased, and if it is larger than the upper limit threshold (α), the number of OIDs included in 1GetRequest transmitted in the next cycle is decreased. When threshold β ≦ RTT value ≦ threshold α, the number of OIDs included in 1GetRequest transmitted in the next cycle is not changed. Therefore, the traffic information collection device 10 can efficiently collect the traffic information from each network device 20 as long as no timeout occurs.

  In the above-described embodiment, the traffic information collection device 10 transmits in the next cycle as the difference between the maximum value of the time required to receive GetResponse from the network device 20 (RTT value) and the threshold value α increases. The amount of decrease in the number of OIDs included in GetRequest may be increased. For example, if RTT value <threshold value α, the decrease width of the OID number (m) = 10, and if RTT value << threshold value α, the decrease width of the OID number (m) = 20. By doing so, the traffic information collecting apparatus 10 can more quickly determine the appropriate number of OIDs to be set in 1GetRequest in the next cycle (the number of OIDs that can be efficiently collected without causing a timeout). .

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Traffic information collection apparatus 11 Input / output part 12 Processing part 13 Storage part 20 (20A, 20B) Network apparatus 121 Packet creation part 122 SNMP packet transmission part 123 SNMP packet reception part 124 Packet processing control part 131 Collection object apparatus information 132 Collection object Item information

Claims (5)

A traffic information collection device that collects traffic information from a plurality of network devices in a network using SNMP,
A storage unit that stores, for each piece of identification information of the network device, collection target item information indicating an OID list of OIDs indicating a traffic information storage area in the network device;
With reference to the collection target item information, based on an instruction from the packet processing control unit, for each network device, select a predetermined number of OIDs of traffic information to be collected from the network device from the OID list, A packet creation unit for creating a traffic information acquisition request including the selected OID;
A packet transmission unit that transmits the created traffic information acquisition request to each of the network devices via an input / output unit;
A packet receiving unit that receives a response to the traffic information acquisition request from each of the network devices, and measures an RTT value that is a time from when the traffic information acquisition request is transmitted until the response is received;
The packet creation unit includes the packet processing control unit that determines the number of OIDs included in the traffic information acquisition request;
The packet processing control unit
When the RTT value related to the network device measured by the packet receiving unit is larger than the first threshold value α, the number of OIDs included in the traffic information acquisition request transmitted to the network device is decreased in the next period. When instructing the packet creation unit and the RTT value is smaller than the second threshold β, the packet creation is performed so as to increase the number of OIDs included in the traffic information acquisition request transmitted to the network device in the next period. Instruct the department,
The traffic information is characterized in that the threshold value α is larger than the threshold value β and smaller than a time-out time from when the traffic information acquisition request is transmitted until the traffic information acquisition request is received. Collection device. The packet processing control unit
Of the RTT values of the response to the traffic information acquisition request to the network device measured by the packet receiver, the first threshold value α and the second threshold value β using the maximum value of the RTT value in the cycle. The traffic information collection device according to claim 1, wherein the number of OIDs included in a traffic information acquisition request transmitted to the network device in the next cycle is determined. The packet processing control unit
When the maximum value of the RTT value related to the network device measured by the packet receiving unit is larger than the first threshold value α, the difference between the maximum value of the RTT value and the first threshold value is larger. 2. The traffic information collection device according to claim 1, wherein a reduction range of the number of OIDs included in the traffic information acquisition request to the network device is increased. Collecting target item information that collects traffic information from a plurality of network devices in the network using SNMP, and for each piece of identification information of the network device, indicates an OID list of an OID indicating a traffic information storage area in the network device. A traffic information collecting device including a storage unit for storing
With reference to the collection target item information, for each network device, a predetermined number of OIDs of traffic information to be collected from the network device are selected from the OID list, and a traffic information acquisition request including the selected OID is selected. The steps of creating
Transmitting the created traffic information acquisition request to each of the network devices;
Receiving a response to the traffic information acquisition request from each of the network devices, measuring an RTT value that is a time from when the traffic information acquisition request is transmitted until the response is received;
When the measured RTT value related to the network device is larger than the first threshold value α, the number of OIDs included in the traffic information acquisition request transmitted to the network device is decreased in the next cycle, and the RTT value is And, when smaller than the second threshold value β, increasing the number of OIDs included in the traffic information acquisition request transmitted to the network device in the next cycle,
The traffic information is characterized in that the threshold value α is larger than the threshold value β and smaller than a time-out time from when the traffic information acquisition request is transmitted until the traffic information acquisition request is received. Collection method. A program for causing a traffic information collecting apparatus, which is a computer, to execute the traffic information collecting method according to claim 4.

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