[nsp] traffic monitor

[Jared Mauch]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:45:51AM -0400, Alban Dani wrote:
> Thanks Sam,
> 
> I am using netsaint for monitoring.
> I have the switches set up so that every time the ifOctet output in a
> particular interface goes over a certain value, in a 6 min delta, it sends a
> trap which is received by netsaint.
> Netsaint then e-mails/pages me and so on.
> However I am not convinced that ifOctet output is the best thing to check.
> I'll be much happier if I could check the 5 min rate average instead.

	You should also check pps rates.  I've seen a lot of
things where pps goes up a lot but bps doesn't peak.

	- Jared

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Stickland [mailto:sam_ml at spacething.org] 
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:39 AM
> To: Alban Dani; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] traffic monitor
> 
> MRTG?
> 
> http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alban Dani" <adani at stevens.edu>
> To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 3:23 PM
> Subject: [nsp] traffic monitor
> 
> 
> > I am trying to put together some rmon configuration on my catalyst
> switches.
> >
> > Right now I am monitoring the total number of input/output bytes but am
> not
> > totally happy with it.
> >
> > This is the kind of statement I am using:
> >
> > rmon alarm 3 ifEntry.16.47 360 delta rising-threshold 2000000000 1
> > falling-threshold 2000000000 2 owner adani
> >
> >
> >
> > I have been looking unsuccessfully for some snmp representation of the 5
> min
> > input/output rate as otherwise shown by the show interface command.
> >
> >
> >
> > Can anybody help me with this?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Alban
> >
> >
> >
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