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What Are Outband Incoming Rate and Outband Outgoing Rate?

You need to understand the meaning of outband and inband:

Outband

Outband is the opposite to inband. Inband indicates that the monitored object is an ECS. Outband indicates that the monitored object is the physical server at the virtualization layer.

Incoming and Outgoing

Incoming indicates traffic comes to an ECS per second.
Outgoing indicates traffic sent from an ECS to an external network or client per second.

The following figure shows the traffic directions.

**Table 1** Outband incoming/outgoing rate
Item	Description
Outband incoming rate	Traffic coming into an ECS per second For example, traffic generated when you download resources to an ECS from an external network or upload files to the ECS. Unit: byte/s
Outband outgoing rate	Traffic going out of an ECS per second For example, traffic generated when users access an ECS via the internet or when the ECS functions as an FTP server for users to download resources. Unit: byte/s

**Table 2** Outband incoming/outgoing rate
Item	Description
Outband incoming rate	Traffic coming to an ECS per second at the virtualization layer. Generally, the outband incoming rate is slightly larger than the traffic coming to the ECS because the virtualization layer will filter some unnecessary packets. Unit: byte/s
Outband outgoing rate	Traffic going out of an ECS per second at the virtualization layer. Generally, the outband outgoing rate is slightly larger than the traffic sent from the ECS because the virtualization layer will filter some unnecessary packets. Unit: byte/s