[olug] Monitoring/graphing Ethernet port errors.

[Brian Roberson]

if you cant get through the maze of required libraries and such... nmis is a
*GREAT* tool for this:



http://sins.com.au/nmis/
<http://sins.com.au/nmis/>http://nmis.sf.net




On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

> I'm trying to monitor for port errors on my Cox cable modem -- under load
> I'm getting about 3-5% CRC or Framing errors on in-bound packets (Cox was
> out and said they see some issues with the up-stream signal so they'll be
> out tomorrow too).
>
> I've got a Cisco switch (2900) between the switch and firewall so I can use
> MRTG to graph the bandwidth, but I can't seem to find a good example of
> monitoring errors (ifInError and ifOutError).
>
> Right now I have it setup to pull the ifInError/ifOutError data, but the
> graphing is setup like it's pulling bandwidth so the scales and graphs
> don't
> really provide a usable chart...
>
> Anyone have a sample bit of mrtg.conf I can use?
>
> Or has the world moved on to Cacti, or Cricket, or Zabbix, or...?
>
> Thanks,
> DanL
>
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