monitoring specific individual queues - CRICKET SUGGESTION

[Sean Knox]

It depends exactly what you're looking for...cricket is as good as the 
others, and is very straightforward. There are a variety of log parsers 
and cricket addons that might help extend your graphing capabilities 
(http://www.certaintysolutions.com/tech-advice/cricket-contrib/).  
Another option is modifying/adding a MIB to the SNMP agent(s) on your 
monitored boxes, adding information about specific protocols or programs 
running on that box. You could then graph based on those new results.

APAN is extremely useful because it allows you to create graphs based 
directly from Nagios output, without the need for a third-party rrdtool 
app, such as cricket, or third-party monitoring agent, such as SNMP. 
APAN has a ways to go before it will displace cricket, but it's getting 
there.

Sean

James Noble wrote:

>Thanks for the info.  I have been playing with
>cricket, and maybe it is because I am a dumb newbie
>who knows nothing, but I am not seeing functionality
>for the viewing of traffic on specific protocols...
>
>Should I be using a different frontend for RRDTool, or
>am I just making a dumb newbie goof/oversight?
>
>thanks in advance...
>
>--- "Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]"
><jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com> wrote:
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>>It depends what you mean by 'view'.
>>
>>As Marc Powell suggested, you could use one of the
>>RRDTools:
>>
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>http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/rrdworld/
>  
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>>This will let you collect data and present the
>>results visually (graphs).
>>This also allows you to view trends, which is always
>>good.  :)
>>
>>OTOH, if by 'view' you actually mean 'to have a
>>finger on the pulse', then
>>Nagios (with the help of one or more plugins) should
>>do quite nicely.  Ask
>>yourself if you can get a result from a command line
>>for what you're trying
>>to ascertain, and if the answer is 'yes', then you
>>can monitor it in Nagios.
>>This will give you the advantage of being able to
>>set thresholds (warning,
>>critical) and be alerted in kind.
>>
>>In summary:  If you want graphs and trending, use
>>RRDTool and a frontend.
>>If you want to be alerted, use Nagios.
>>
>>jc
>>
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: James Noble [mailto:jimmy97223 at yahoo.com]
>>>Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 4:44 AM
>>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>Subject: [Nagios-users] monitoring specific
>>>      
>>>
>>individual queues
>>    
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>>>New guy here to Nagios with a question about the
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>>core
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>>>functionality.  Does Nagios have in its raw form a
>>>facilty by which to view multiple queues on a
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>>network
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>>>device and their traffic flow?  I guess this
>>>      
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>>should be
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>>>asked in the context of RTP.  I am watching an
>>>      
>>>
>>Avaya
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>>>Cajun that is pushing VoIP traffic which is in the
>>>high-priority queue, and then there is the
>>>low-priority queue, which carries 90% of the rest
>>>      
>>>
>>of
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>>>the traffic.  I want to be able to watch the same
>>>parameters on an Allied Telesyn switch and compare
>>>performance between it and the Avaya.  Is this
>>>      
>>>
>>going
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>>>to necessitate a custom plugin, or is it something
>>>that I can do with config changes out of the box? 
>>>      
>>>
>>I
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>>>didn't see anything about htis in the
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>>documentation,
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>>>but I have seen thus far that the documentation is
>>>somewhat fuzzy as it relates to reality at this
>>>      
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>>point...
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