[c-nsp] monitoring error thresholds

[Gert Doering]

hi,

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 04:10:31PM -0400, christopher_a_kane at bankone.com wrote:
> does anyone have some best practice numbers for throwing alarms on 
> percentages of errors for various media? i've search and haven't uncovered 
> any suggested numbers for things like >x% of errors on T1 should sound 
> alarms v. >Y% on GigE, etc...

We throw an alarm if we see over 200 input errors in 5 minutes, regardless
of the type of interface.

Which is quite defensive - a T1/E1 should have 0 errors, period - but
we only want to see "serious" issues.

gert
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