Re: [Nagios-users] snmp net utilization

2010-02-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Would the timestamps on these files stop changing if it wasn't working? >It seems that periodically checking that these files are updating and >submitting a passive check result could do what you want. The thing creates all sorts of dirs in a dated hierarchy. I suppose I could setup some an in

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp net utilization

2010-02-21 Thread Morris, Patrick
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Does it write to a file? If so can you monitor whether the file is >> being written to? If installing an agent such as NSClient++ is out of >> the question (is it?), how about running a script from the scheduler >> and sending the check result back to Nagios using send_

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp net utilization

2010-02-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Does it write to a file? If so can you monitor whether the file is >being written to? If installing an agent such as NSClient++ is out of >the question (is it?), how about running a script from the scheduler >and sending the check result back to Nagios using send_nsca? It writes to multiple fil

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp net utilization

2010-02-21 Thread Jim Avery
On 21 February 2010 03:58, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>>I have a crappy windows app that provides no way of remotely monitoring its >>>status. >>>In fact, the only way I can be assured it's in a state I depend on is if the >>>net >>>utilization is up. >> >>Checking whether the application is runni

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp net utilization

2010-02-20 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>>I have a crappy windows app that provides no way of remotely monitoring its >>status. >>In fact, the only way I can be assured it's in a state I depend on is if the >>net >>utilization is up. > >Checking whether the application is running or not would not suffice? Nope, it's a dvr application

[Nagios-users] snmp net utilization

2010-02-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have a crappy windows app that provides no way of remotely monitoring its status. In fact, the only way I can be assured it's in a state I depend on is if the net utilization is up. I use was using check_snmp as it allows the warning/critical to be set such that when the utilization falls low,