Bandwith Monitoring

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rsparks
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Bandwith Monitoring

Post by rsparks »

I am using Nagios Core and am looking for the plugin for bandwidth monitoring as well as a possible how to guide. as in what flatfiles do I put it in and where I put the command.

Newbie here.
benjaminsmith
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Re: Bandwith Monitoring

Post by benjaminsmith »

Hello @rsparks,

Typically, MRTG is used with Nagios to monitor bandwidth on a switch or router. I've included a few links below to help get you started, and let me know if you have any specific questions.

Graphing Performance Info With MRTG

The plugin check_rrdtraf can be configured to alert on incoming and outgoing levels.

check_rrdtraf
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