Alarm for a pre-determined threshold of Bandwidth?

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TBT
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Alarm for a pre-determined threshold of Bandwidth?

Post by TBT »

Is there a way to trigger an alarm when a switches bandwidth drops below a per-determined threshold (Kind of like the inverse of a bandwidth threshold alarm).
I have a multicast feed coming into a switch interface that should steadily be at approximately 800 mbps and I would like to be able to monitor the interface and see an alarm if the bandwidth drops below 750 mbps (for example).

Please advise.
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Re: Alarm for a pre-determined threshold of Bandwidth?

Post by jomann »

I'm not sure what plugin you are using to check bandwidth (if you're using the wizard or not) but the standard nagios-plugin style thresholds are supposed to be able to accept a range using : in the warning or critical value. An example of this is:

-w 750:900 (less than 750 and over 900)

More information can be found here: https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelin ... HOLDFORMAT however not all plugins conform to these standards so depending on the plugin you are using it may or may not work.
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TBT
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Re: Alarm for a pre-determined threshold of Bandwidth?

Post by TBT »

Exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you.
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Re: Alarm for a pre-determined threshold of Bandwidth?

Post by jomann »

Great! Closing this.
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