monitoring specific individual queues - CRICKET SUGGESTION
James Noble
jimmy97223 at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 12 23:09:23 CET 2002
Thanks for the info. I have been playing with
cricket, and maybe it is because I am a dumb newbie
who knows nothing, but I am not seeing functionality
for the viewing of traffic on specific protocols...
Should I be using a different frontend for RRDTool, or
am I just making a dumb newbie goof/oversight?
thanks in advance...
--- "Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]"
<jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com> wrote:
> It depends what you mean by 'view'.
>
> As Marc Powell suggested, you could use one of the
> RRDTools:
>
>
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/rrdworld/
>
> This will let you collect data and present the
> results visually (graphs).
> This also allows you to view trends, which is always
> good. :)
>
> OTOH, if by 'view' you actually mean 'to have a
> finger on the pulse', then
> Nagios (with the help of one or more plugins) should
> do quite nicely. Ask
> yourself if you can get a result from a command line
> for what you're trying
> to ascertain, and if the answer is 'yes', then you
> can monitor it in Nagios.
> This will give you the advantage of being able to
> set thresholds (warning,
> critical) and be alerted in kind.
>
> In summary: If you want graphs and trending, use
> RRDTool and a frontend.
> If you want to be alerted, use Nagios.
>
> jc
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Noble [mailto:jimmy97223 at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 4:44 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] monitoring specific
> individual queues
> >
> >
> > New guy here to Nagios with a question about the
> core
> > functionality. Does Nagios have in its raw form a
> > facilty by which to view multiple queues on a
> network
> > device and their traffic flow? I guess this
> should be
> > asked in the context of RTP. I am watching an
> Avaya
> > Cajun that is pushing VoIP traffic which is in the
> > high-priority queue, and then there is the
> > low-priority queue, which carries 90% of the rest
> of
> > the traffic. I want to be able to watch the same
> > parameters on an Allied Telesyn switch and compare
> > performance between it and the Avaya. Is this
> going
> > to necessitate a custom plugin, or is it something
> > that I can do with config changes out of the box?
> I
> > didn't see anything about htis in the
> documentation,
> > but I have seen thus far that the documentation is
> > somewhat fuzzy as it relates to reality at this
> point...
> >
> >
> >
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