How to monitor Windows/Linux Network Interface Bandwidth?

[igsadmin]

Hi Guys,

Is there any plugins that we can use to monitor Windows/Linux Network Interface Bandwidth?
I can't find any default plugins under Windows/Linux monitoring in Nagios XI.

Kindly please advise.

Thanks.

[slansing]

For windows, you could do this through performance counters, and if you have SNMP enabled on the systems, you could actually run our Switch / Bandwidth Monitoring Wizard against them. For linux, this would have to be done via SNMP in most cases, you can also try using the wizard, or searching the exchange:

http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... 0bandwidth

[igsadmin]

For windows, you could do this through performance counters, and if you have SNMP enabled on the systems, you could actually run our Switch / Bandwidth Monitoring Wizard against them. For linux, this would have to be done via SNMP in most cases, you can also try using the wizard, or searching the exchange:

http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... 0bandwidth

Is there any future deployment plan that Win/Linux network bandwidth monitor will include by default??
It will be good, Nagios XI team can consider about it.

Thanks.

[slansing]

It may be possible, yes. However, in the case of the already existing wizards, that would either require that we force users to download an additional plugin that is not packaged with the nagios plugins package. Or we add an additional step to the wizards, which is not going to happen as far as I know. For now, either running that wizard I mentioned, or adding a custom plugin is your best bet, and likely will be in the future.

[igsadmin]

It may be possible, yes. However, in the case of the already existing wizards, that would either require that we force users to download an additional plugin that is not packaged with the nagios plugins package. Or we add an additional step to the wizards, which is not going to happen as far as I know. For now, either running that wizard I mentioned, or adding a custom plugin is your best bet, and likely will be in the future.

I believe the most of the people demand of Win/Linux Bandwidth monitor as a Nagios plugins package.
Hopefully the release will be coming very soon.
Thanks for your information.

[slansing]

Unfortunately, that is not the case (you're one of the only people who has openly asked for this), however, if you do have a handful of users you know would like to see it, feel free to post on our Github:

https://github.com/nagios-plugins

[Box293]

Are these machines VMware Virtual Machines by any chance?

[igsadmin]

Are these machines VMware Virtual Machines by any chance?

Hi, some are VM, some are physical machine.

[lmiltchev]

Using the Switch/Router Monitoring wizard should work for monitoring the network interface bandwidth on Windows or Linux boxes as well. Example:

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[Box293]

Hi, some are VM, some are physical machine.

For the VM's, if they are VMware VM's then I have a plugin that can report the guest VM network usage. This is handy as it is OS independent.

Check out box293_check_vmware here:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... re/details

Specifically Guest_NIC_Usage.