Checking Traffic via SNMP

[jeff vier]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 12:48 -0500, Travis J. Noll wrote:
> Does anyone know of a plugin I can use to monitor bandwidth utilization 
> of a remote host via snmp?

I collect with MRTG and then wrote a plugin to check the resulting RRD
files against the MaxBytes in the mrtg.cfg

It works well, and you get the bonus graphs (though I use cacti as the
frontend).

> I can use check_snmp to obtain total bytes in either direction, but I'm 
> more interested in some sort of aggregation of bytes/sec.  Perhaps an 
> average bytes/sec over an N second interval.
> 
> Anything like that?
> 
> I've recently found a check_snmp_if perl script and I'm looking to 
> extend that to poll ifInOctets and ifOutOctets over an interval and 
> averaging.  Any thoughts?

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