switched rack PDU and SNMP monitoring

[Dan Newcombe]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Kerry Cox wrote:
> Right, I was already planning on incorporating it into our current MRTG
> setup. Still looking for some plugins for MRTG and instructions on how
> best to do this. Any suggestions for setting it up with cricket? I

Cricket is very similar to MRTG - I just find it easier to work with so I
use it.  MRTG may have a similiar feature for this.

In cricket, this doc explains the monitor thresholds
  http://cricket.sourceforge.net/support/doc/monitor-thresholds.html
I'd just use the EXEC action and have it create a passive service check as
described here http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/passivechecks.html

> But management has been so taken with our Nagios install, they asked if
> anything could be done to incorporate these strips into the current
> Nagios setup.

Just setup a link in nagios to your mtrg/cricket monitor...that way the
info is there and a little more flexiable.

You could try to do it with the historgram's in Nagios, but that is just a
big overview of was it in a good or bad state.  By tying it into a rrdtool
based system, you get the ability to see that for 3 days before it went
into the bad state, port 7 started to have a climb in it's amp draw or
something like that.


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