[mrtg] Re: Threshold monitoring

Keith McCallion keith at mccallion.com
Thu Feb 12 21:33:22 MET 2004


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, William Owen wrote:

> If I understand this, you need to write a script that pulls the current and
> previous values from your log file (rrd would be fairly easy to do),
> calculate the % change in value (number between 100% and -100%) and set a
> threshold that checks the absolute value of the change so that if it is say
> 10% up or down, you get notified.

You're right, that would work and be fairly easy to do. I was originally
thinking of implementing this in the same was as Threshold monitoring, but
you're approach would be quite a bit easier..

Thanks!


Keith

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