nagios and check_snmp

[Chris St. Pierre]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Eric Marquez wrote:

> it returns back the following value.
> OK - 2840686911 | IF-MIB::ifInOctets.235=2840686911c;;;;
>
> I need to set a warning and critical alert at a certain level.
> what does 2840686911 represent bits per second?
>
> I need nagios to start warning at 75 Mbs and go critical at 95 Mbs.  I can't
> get a handle on what the ifInOctets is telling me about the interface.  Can
> somebody straighten me out.

ifInOctets represents the number of octets that have been processed
since counting started (or last overflowed).  It does not represent
bits per second.  You'd have to track the rate of change in ifInOctets
if you wanted to get bits per second, and that'd be a much more
complicated plugin.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University


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