Re: Alerting tool

[Matthew Gracie <graciem () CANISIUS EDU>]

Peter Charbonneau wrote:

> SNMP read interface OID string to get bytes in.  In one (two, five)
> minutes read the counter again, if the difference between the two
> reads is less than value x, but more than value y, page as "down".
>
>
> I would prefer and open source tool.  I am using Cisco routers.
>
> What's up Gold doesn't seem to be able to do this.  Is there,
> potentially an addon for Cacti that can do it?  Using Nagios for this
> seems to be like swatting a fly with a sledge hammer, but ...
>
> Anyone out there doing anything like this?

I've written some custom SNMP read rules in Nagios that do something
similar. I imagine if you've already got a Nagios implementation in
place, it would be pretty straightforward.

What are you currently using for monitoring?

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