Network Badnwidth utilization question

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 06:29, Anders Holm wrote:
> Hi Folks.
> 
> I'm wondering, being new to Nagios and all, is there a way to check a network 
> device to see if it is reaching it's maximum network bandwidth? I.e. to see if a 
> network device is getting saturated....
> 
> RTFM response are just fine.. ;) I'm quite new to Nagios but have fiddled with 
> other network monitoring tools. Just not quite sure how to do this with nagios, 
> which I'd like to recommend to a customer...

I believe the standard approch is to deploy MRTG or something like it.
If you want, there is a plugin to check the MRTG data for a threshold.

--
Karl


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