[xymon] Trending Interfaces without IP addresses

[Conrad Rockenhaus]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Bill Arlofski <waa-hobbitml at revpol.com>wrote:

> 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?
>
>
> --
> Bill Arlofski
> Reverse Polarity, LLC
>

Hi Bill,

Unfortunately, do not have that option - I have no direct communications
between that switch and the LAN that Xymon resides on, and getting
communications between the switches that are spanning to the IDS and Xymon
isn't going to be feasible.  Only way to monitor the metrics of what I'm
capturing is to utilize the in packet counter on the IDS interface.

Thanks,

Conrad
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