FW: Using NAGIOS to read data gathered by MRTG?

[Darren Gibbs]

[Sorry Garry - didn't mean to send this to you directly - not used
to using Outlook for listmail yet, and don't hit "Reply to All"
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>> I have a router which is monitored by MRTG to gather traffic stats -
>> useage/load/data volume, and I want to have Nagios sent an
>> alert email if
>> the utilisation percentage on a given data link exceeds a threshold
>> 
>> Will one of the standard plugins do this? If so, which one,
>> and how do I make this work?
>
>It depends... Are you using MRTG with log files or an .rrd backend?
>There are plugins available to check both. Look in the plugin source
>contrib directory, if you don't find them in nagios/libexec. 

It's just running log files.

There are a couple of mrtg pluging in nagios/libexec, but I can't figure 
out how to use them, and the docs aren't very helpful.

DaZZa

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