Snmpstatus/aggregate bandwidth

[John Jolet]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Welch, John wrote:
>
>> So after looking around nagiosexchange and a quick search of the list
>> archives with no success...
>>
>> Is there a plugin that either uses the total traffic for a device,  
>> ala
>> snmpstatus, or can present the aggregate traffic in and out for  
>> all ports on
>> a device as two numbers? (total in, total out)
>>
>> MRTG is great for per-port stuff, but I want to use Nagios to  
>> measure total
>> traffic used by a host.
>
> You are not using the right tool. If you want performance graphs  
> like that
> you need to poll the proper interfaces and store them with your own
> rrdtool script and generate the graphs.
>
> Nagios is not the tool for concatenating these things. Only use a  
> hammer
> when you need one. If you need a plier it is not good to grasp the  
> nearest
> hammer and expect it to be a plier. (you may interchange plier and  
> hammer
> if you like in this sample as long as you do it consistently ;-)
>
we use cacti for that, but you don't get alerts that way...

> Hugo.
>
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