[mrtg] mrtg and alarming...

[McDonald, Dan]

On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 00:41 -0700, Peter wrote:
> Is there any way to get an email notification alarm (not just the
> crontab output mail, but something more formal) if an interface isn't
> be polled in the last 5 minutes?

You said "any way", so...

bbmrtg.pl will check the timestamp for the last update, and will return
a "purple" code if the interface is not successfully polled.  This can
then be turned into an alert by Xymon, Hobbit, or bb4, which can send a
page.

-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com

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