Monitoring data throuhput from SAN switches

[Joerg Linge]

Christian Schneemann schrieb:
> 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)

Hi Christian,

try swFCPortTxWord and swFCPortRxWord ( tested on Brocade switches )

Jörg

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