[c-nsp] using snmp views effectively

[Dale W. Carder]

On Sep 17, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Ray Burkholder wrote:
>
> All these statistics are recorded by Cricket.  For alerting, there  
> are a
> couple of options that come to mind.  I'm sure others can think of  
> others.
>
> 2) Since the API against RRD files is published, one could run a  
> periodic
> scanning script against them to automatically detect values out of  
> range and
> report them.

Crude, and highly effective!  We monitor approx 90k interfaces in
this manner for interface errors, bandwidth utilization, etc.

Our process_rrd.pl script can be found at:
http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder/scripts/

Cheers,
Dale

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Dale W. Carder - Network Engineer
University of Wisconsin at Madison
http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder