nsclient counters - detect increase / decrease

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Sounds like you'll want to write a wrapper script.  Write a tempfile to disk
to save state between invocations.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Leddy [mailto:mark_leddy at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:13 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] nsclient counters - detect increase / decrease
> 
> 
> 
> I have been able to run nsclient and check_nt to return the counters.
> Works real nice!
> 
> Does anyone have or could anyone tell me some specifics on 
> how I could check 
> the values returned against the previous check to see if the 
> counter(s) 
> incremented, and if the counter has not incremented to give a 
> warning or 
> critical status, alert, etc.?
> 
> One of the areas this would help is checking smtp mail flow, 
> with Exchange 
> and Lotus Notes where a simple too high/ too low threshold 
> does not apply.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
> Nagios output for smtp counter
> SMTP Messages Received Total 77583
> 
> check command I am using:
> define command{
>         command_name    check_nt_smtptotalmsgreceived
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTNAME$ -p 
> 1248 -v COUNTER -l 
> "\\SMTP Server(_Total)\\Messages Received Total","SMTP 
> Messages Received 
> Total %.f"
> }
> 
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