[c-nsp] Snmp on 7206

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Rivo Tahina RAZAFINDRATSIFA wrote:

> I'm using an 7206 with an HSSI interface, I'd like to be noticed when
> traffic on this interface is less than a given value (eg 10Mbps), what mib
> can be used?

There isn't a specific MIB to use for exactly this.  Perhaps an RMON2 
probe could be set up to set somthing like this?

Otherwise, you'd need to do something like this:
1) poll if[In|Out]Octets for that interface at some point in time
2) repeat the poll at some point in the future (a 5 minute interval is 
pretty standard) and compare the results with the values from the first 
poll results to get an average of the traffic rate over the interval.
3) tell your NMS to send you an alert

Many NMS packages have capabilities like this built in - normally used for 
sending an alert when traffic exceeds a given threshold.  Depending on 
what tools you use to manage your network today, getting it to work when 
traffic drops below a certain threshold may or may not be a trivial 
matter.

jms