nagios and check_snmp

[Eric Marquez]

I'm ended up setting up mrtg last night so I can use the check_mrtgtraf.  It
always seems to show critical for some reason, even when I don't give a
critical or warning number.




On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Israel Brewster
<israel at frontierflying.com>wrote:

> On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:40 AM, Marc Powell wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Chris St. Pierre wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > For the OP, plugins that do this are available on nagiosexchange.org.
>
> Or use MRTG. While this would be another piece of software to set up,
> this is exactly what it is designed for. You can either set it up to
> alert itself, or (as I am doing) use one of the nagios plugins that
> checks the mrtg log files. The benifit of doing things this way is
> that you get the nice pretty MRTG graphs (not that you couldn't jigger
> nagios to produce them as well, but I don't know how hard that would
> be), while keeping a single point of monitoring/alerting.
>
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