[xymon] Trending Interfaces without IP addresses

[Bill Arlofski]

On 08/11/10 11:28, Conrad Rockenhaus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have several IDS sensors that I would like to take bandwidth snapshots of
> the IDS interface.  I noticed that the ifstat command to grab the statistics
> only grabs statistics for the interface with an IP address assigned to it; I
> have tried modifying it to grab the statistics for the unnumbered interface,
> but it still does not return any data.  The sensors run FreeBSD.
> 
> So, does anyone know of a way to get Xymon to gather statistics of an
> interface that is up with an active link (one-way tap) but does not have an
> IP address?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Conrad
> 

Hi Conrad... Why not just monitor the ethernet port on the switch the IDS is
plugged into?


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Bill Arlofski
Reverse Polarity, LLC