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RE: Any good method to check network overload?
From: Mike Dresser <mdresser () windsormachine com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:30:05 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, David Gillett wrote:
I use MRTG for the boxes I have working/usable SNMP implementations on. It doesn't handle outages/crashes very well. it just treats the last successfully retrieved data volume as continuing until new data becomes available. There are some boxes I need to monitor, on which SNMP is broken or unavailable. I'm not sure whether it would meet the original poster's need, or not.
You can tell mrtg to report a 0 value instead of the last value. As well, you don't have to use snmp either. Target[target]: `head --lines=8 /file | tail --lines=4` is a perfectly valid method for mrtg to use. As long as your output returns four values, you are all set. Mike
Current thread:
- Any good method to check network overload? swin (Mar 03)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? David Gillett (Mar 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? swin (Mar 05)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? David Gillett (Mar 05)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? Mark Reardon (Mar 06)
- Re: Any good method to check network overload? stefmit (Mar 07)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? Trevor Cushen (Mar 06)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? Chris Berry (Mar 06)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? David Gillett (Mar 07)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? Mike Dresser (Mar 07)
- Re: Any good method to check network overload? gene yoo (Mar 07)
- Re: Any good method to check network overload? Sean Knox (Mar 07)
- Re: Any good method to check network overload? Nuzman (Mar 07)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? David Gillett (Mar 07)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? swin (Mar 08)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? Burton M. Strauss III (Mar 10)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? Chris Berry (Mar 08)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? Trevor Cushen (Mar 11)
- Re: RE: Any good method to check network overload? Mark Reardon (Mar 11)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? crawford charles (Mar 12)
- RE: Any good method to check network overload? JAVIER OTERO (Mar 12)