which network interface check plugin to use?

[Joerg Linge]

Michael W. Lucas schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Today, I use MRTG to track switch and router traffic, interface
> errors, and so on.  We use Nagios separately to generate alarms.  I
> think we could replace our MRTG install with Nagios and PNP.  I'm
> certain someone here has done this.
> 
> I went looking for interface-stat-checking plugins, and found many.
> Quite a few, actually.  Dozens.  In different versions.  Many with
> similar names, some updated and re-relased by people other than the
> author with slightly different functionality than all the other
> updated versions of the same plugin released by other people.  Rather
> than spend days trying to test all of these, I thought I'd just beg
> for guidance here.  I'm looking for something that:
> 
> a) can be configured to monitor based on port
> name, hopefully using a regex.  (I have many switches to monitor, and
> while some of them have FastEther port 0/1 and another has GigE 0/1, I
> can get away with calling it port 0/1.)
> 
> b) tracks both traffic and interface errors
> 
> c) looks decent in PNP
> 
> d) snmp v3

http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_int.html

check_snmp_int will do the job very well

Joerg

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