> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Hugo van der Kooij > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 5:39 AM > Ford, Andy wrote: > | I'm trying to use check_snmp_int.pl (not standard, see > | http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_int.html) but when I try to get my > | results in percent form, I get over 100% results on at > least on device: > | > | > | $./check_snmp_int.pl -HDEVICE -CXXX --name 'eth-s1p1 ' --perfcheck > | --perfspeed --warning=40,60 --critical=60,80 --prct > | eth-s1p1 Ethernet Layer Intel 10/100 Ethernet:UP (CRIT 180.3%/CRIT > | 468.1%):(1 UP): CRITICAL > > You are instructing it to report how much the speed goes over the > configured maximum. And you set the maximum to 60 Kb/s in and > 80 kb/s out. > > It seems you have in fact 108 kb/s in and 375 kb/s out as the actual > traffic flow. So the alert is valid. > > If you add the -u parameter your would trigger warning on the > percentage > ~ of the interface. So you need to reach 40% of your maximum > speed before > you reach the warning level.
Actually, the "--prct" is the long options version of "-u" for percent checks. > > But I must admit the help info on this plugin is not exactly clear. A > number of options seem to be described in rather puzzling terms which > are open to speculation of what is meant exactly. This may be due to > translation errors. It is complex and the help is ambiguous, no doubt. I'm finding, though, that the effort of experimenting with the plugin to get what I wanted is worthwhile. The final answer to the "over 100%" problem was that the device being queried (a Nokia firewall), was putting erroneous values into the ifSpeed MIB, inserting kbs instead of bps. Vendor has a fix in a newer OS. Andrew Ford Wachovia Corporate Information Security 314-955-6647 desk 314-600-7025 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wachovia Securities, LLC's outgoing and incoming e-mails are electronically archived and subject to review and/or disclosure to someone other than the recipient. A.G. Edwards, a division of Wachovia Securities, LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ 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
