[c-nsp] SNMP traffic monitoring / alerting

[Patrick Muldoon]

On Feb 14, 2008, at 5:13 AM, Aaron R wrote:

>
> You are absolutely correct. I am already graphing / totaling the  
> amount of
> traffic out the interface I just need a way to be alerted when it  
> exceeds a
> particular threshold and we have to pay our ISP big bucks for going  
> over our
> limit. Saves me from checking graphs each day!


What are you using to graph your traffic?

Nagios has check_mrtg, check_mrtgtraf (and there are ones for RRDs as  
well).   That could either be used with nagios to issue an alert at a  
certain threshold or perhaps used standalone to  notify you.

-Patrick

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