Re: Alerting tool

[Peter Charbonneau <Peter.Charbonneau () WILLIAMS EDU>]

Matt,

  Thanks.

  We have What's Up Gold and Cacti for monitoring.  I have been
looking around for something that might be able to do this, and Nagios
looks like it will, but also seems like the Nagios learning curve is
pretty steep.  If I was going to use it for more, then that would not
be an issue.

p

On Oct 22, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Matthew Gracie wrote:

> 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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PeteC


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