Monitoring an Aggregate of PerfData

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turella
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Monitoring an Aggregate of PerfData

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Hello,

I have 6 physical ports that I monitor individually; each port is a 10gb internet pipe making our total internet capacity 60gb's. I am successfully graphing all of them, and have stacked the graphs so that I may see the total bandwidth of all 6.

Now, what I would like to achieve is to be able to monitor the accumulative BW of all six so that I can set threshold alarms i.e., if my total BW on all six go over 80% I want to be notified "warning" and "critical" if it goes over 90%, idea being to make sure we're not going over the capacity of our internet transport pipes.

Nagios tech-support stated there's not a way to do this - so I'm wondering if anyone has achieve this in some other way.

Thank you!
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kg2857
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Re: Monitoring an Aggregate of PerfData

Post by kg2857 »

Write a script that runs each of the checks, sums the data and alerts if needed. Pretty simple.
turella
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Re: Monitoring an Aggregate of PerfData

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Don't know how to write scripts and if I did I wouldn't know where to deploy it.

If anyone has ever done this and has a written script, please advise.

Thanks.
kg2857
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Re: Monitoring an Aggregate of PerfData

Post by kg2857 »

The script would run from the same host as the checks you want to combine.
You might want to look into how you're checking the thing bandwidth and have a look on the echange.nagios.org site for plugins.
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