You are correct I don't want to ignore discards. Yes I would like to see separate thresholds for Errors and Discards.
You mention that the 'Interface Errors' threshold apply only to errors/minute, but when I change the threshold, it does affect when I get notified for 'discards per minute', so I think the threshold applies to both counters. Steven Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Engineer ITS Network Communications Rochester Institute of Technology Office Phone: (585) 475-2702 Office Hours: 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Janice Losgar Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 11:49 AM To: 'InterMapper Discussion' Subject: RE: [IM-Talk] Question about Thresholds and when they trigger notifiers Steve, The thresholds for link utilization are 50% and 90%. If link utilization is 50% or greater, the link is colored yellow for "warning" and if link utilization is 90% or greater, the link is colored orange for "alarm". The device thresholds for 'Interface Errors" apply only to errors/minute, not to discards. If you are setting a high critical threshold for errors, you won't be alerted to errors that are less than 10,000/minute, but you should continue to be alerted to any discard errors regardless of any device thresholds that you have set for interface errors. You can completely ignore discards and errors using the Set Info > Set Behavior command, but it sounds as if you would like a separate configurable threshold for Interface discards. Is that correct? Regards, Janice Losgar Dartware, LLC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Good Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 11:16 AM To: InterMapper Discussion Subject: [IM-Talk] Question about Thresholds and when they trigger notifiers This may be a request for a feature, if I understand how this works correctly: For the Dartware probes that also get traffic values... I keep forgetting what the percentage trigger is for utilization? Also what level of alert does this trigger? "Critical", "Alarm", or "Warning" (also would be nice to have control over setting the percentage, sort of like how we change the Interface errors...). OK Interface errors threshold. We can set this at server, map, or device level for values that would trigger warning, alarm, or critical. Is it correct that the "Interface errors" threshold is either the error or discards counters per minute? If the "Interface errors" counters is either errors or discards per minute - I see a problem with this. It is possible (and we have this condition going on now), where because of overloaded links we get a large amount of discards, and until the links are upgraded to higher bandwith we have adjusted the threshold up to 10,000 per minute. This is great for discards, allows us to work on only the most overload links first. The problem is with the threshold set so high for critical, we never get critical alerts for "errors per minute". If we see interface errors we want to get alerted as critical also but for a lower threshold, since any errors usually indicate a more serious problem. So is there a way to set the errors per minute threshold different from discards per minute, if not can this be considered for a feature request? Steven Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Engineer ITS Network Communications Rochester Institute of Technology Office Phone: (585) 475-2702 Office Hours: 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
