Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:53, Terry Collins wrote: >> Just checking. You are going to write something in perl to capture the >> snmp packets, thove them into a file and a certain times just count up >> packets for various accts? > > Thats the current plan..... > > I may use rrdtool or similar in the long run
Then I may as well introduce you to Mr Spike now, rather than letting you bump in to him at a later stage. Use 64 bit counters where possible (ifHCInOctets). Collecting ifOperStatus, ifLastChange and sysUptime helps you distinguish between certain events, ie counters resetting due to a reboot. Program the speed of the interface in to your app so you can detect obviously wrong data. Take in to account network and cpu load, plus how frequent counters could wrap when deciding how often to poll. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
