[c-nsp] How to run a scheduled script to grab interface stats

[Alan Buxey]

Hi,

> I'd like to periodically (weekly, for example) gather certain
> interface stats via "show int" and then upload those stats via
> ftp/tftp/scp or whatever to a server. I'll then pull those stats into
> an Excel spreadsheet and parse them. What would be the best way to do
> this? Is this something that can be built in a TCL script and then run
> on a schedule? If you needed to do this, how would you do it? I have
> stats from multiple interfaces on six 7600s that I need to grab at
> least once a week.

I'd say use a standard monitoring package like RTG or MRTG and
then pull the data out of its tables into excel or CSV etc form.

alan