Monitoring data throuhput from SAN switches

Christian Schneemann cschneemann at suse.de
Thu Jun 12 15:50:05 CEST 2008


On Thursday June 12 2008 03:30:12 pm Joerg Linge wrote:
> 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 )
thanks, wich MIB are they in? I can't find them


>
> Jörg
>
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