Monitoring data throuhput from SAN switches

Christian Schneemann cschneemann at suse.de
Thu Jun 12 15:26:35 CEST 2008


On Thursday June 12 2008 02:25:49 pm Max wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Christian Schneemann
>
> <cschneemann at suse.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to monitor the data throughput from SAN Switchen in nagios, so
> > that I can use pnp after that to visualise it.
> >
> > I can't believe that I would be the first one who wants to do this ;)
> >
> > Any recommendations? Is there already a plugin for this?
> >
> > I'm playing around with snmp, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel ;)
>
> For most SAN switches you do not have to reinvent the wheel :), just
> use one of the many plugins available that allow you to query IF-MIB
> metrics.
Hi, 
I want to monitor the FC-Ports, not the ethernetports. 

I've played around with the FCMGMT-MIB. And here with 
connUnitPortStatCountTxObjects and connUnitPortStatCountRxObjects.
My problem is, that tey are hex values and they are to big for perl's hex() 
function. (perl 5.8.8)


>
> - Max



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