HELP, In need of a script

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Check the archive over the last couple of weeks - monitoring traffic 
spikes.

no scripts were posted, but others are working on the issue as well.

-sg

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Wilcox, Chris wrote:

> Does anyone have a script that I could modify that kind of does the
> following......
> 
> (Think MRTG and Nagios here)
> 
> When using check_mrtg on a particular circuit it returns a value...say 100.
> 
> The script would do the following.
> 
> It would take the output of the check_mrtg plugin and if this value is
> greater than 100 it would run tcpdump (dumping output to a file) for 15
> minutes and then stop.
> 
> How does Nagios run external script files based on output from a plugin, is
> there a direct call somewhere?
> 
> Any help or scripts can be emailed to me directly if you don't mind giving
> me your hard earned scripting.  I'm new at this and my VP said that I have
> to have it working by COB Monday.  
> 
> Thanks in Advance for any info.
> 
> Chris.
> 
> 
> 

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