Matt:

Currently it is not possible to modify the information shown for device
interfaces. This is one of the features that we plan to implement in a
future InterMapper version.

Until this is available, you will have to write a custom probe for the
device that will poll a particular ifTable statistics.

Ruth Kurniawati
Dartware, LLC

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Stevens
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 3:25 PM
To: InterMapper Discussion
Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] Alerts based on change

Ruth,

Thanks for the info - this is a good first start.

The only problem I see with this is that the interface statistics aren't 
part of any probes. So I guess one could write a probe that takes a 
particular ifIndex and polls it - but that doesn't seem too scalable.

Is there any way to modify the information shown for interfaces attached 
to a device?
--
matt


Ruth Kurniawati wrote:
> Hi Matt, 
> 
> Currently you can do this by saving the old values in different variables.

> 
> The evaluation of calculations in a probe proceeds from top to bottom
(with
> the exeption that OID variables are executed at the very beginning). 
> 
> The variable values from the last evaluation are still available in the
> current evaluation (as long as the variables haven't been assigned new
> values). 
> 
> An example for custom SNMP probe with N=3 is below. 
> 
> <snmp-device-variables>
> 
> Prev3OctetIn, $Prev2OctetIn, CALCULATION, "InOctets from 3 polls before"
> Prev2OctetIn, $Prev1OctetIn, CALCULATION, "InOctets from 2 polls before"
> Prev1OctetIn, $CurrentOctetIn, CALCULATION, "InOctets from previous poll"
> 
> OctetIn, 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.2, INTEGER, "InOctets"
> 
> <!-- need to  cache $OctetIn to be able to access its value in the 
>      next iteration.  -->
> 
> CurrentOctetIn, $OctetIn, CALCULATION, "Cache current InOctets"
> 
> </snmp-device-variables>
> 
> Thanks,
> Ruth Kurniawati
> Dartware, LLC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Stevens
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:41 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [IM-Talk] Alerts based on change
> 
> I have a question that may turn into a feature request.
> 
> I'd like to generate some sort of an alarm when a given probe variable 
> changes more than X in N polls.
> 
> Ie. I have a link that's transmitting 1000 packets-per-second. I'd like 
> to get an alarm if it jumps 3000 packets-per-second in one polling 
> period. Yet, it's totally normal for this link to do 4kpps - so I can't 
> just set a threshold at 4kpps.
> 
> I can't see a way to do this currently. It seems that if you had access 
> to the previous N values of a variable you could then do calculations 
> based on them. If N was one I'd be happy enough - if it was configurable 
>   (or just larger) I'd be even more happy.
> 
> Does anybody have other ideas or solutions?


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