On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Eric Marquez wrote: > it returns back the following value. > OK - 2840686911 | IF-MIB::ifInOctets.235=2840686911c;;;; > > I need to set a warning and critical alert at a certain level. > what does 2840686911 represent bits per second? > > I need nagios to start warning at 75 Mbs and go critical at 95 Mbs. I can't > get a handle on what the ifInOctets is telling me about the interface. Can > somebody straighten me out.
ifInOctets represents the number of octets that have been processed since counting started (or last overflowed). It does not represent bits per second. You'd have to track the rate of change in ifInOctets if you wanted to get bits per second, and that'd be a much more complicated plugin. Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
