Re: [xymon] Network Bandwidth monitoring

["McDonald, Dan" <Dan.McDonald (at) austinenergy.com>]

On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:02 AM, "Mike Cavanagh" <mike (at) terrapintesting.com> wrote:

> I plan to incorporate my MRTG system into Xymon.  I would like to know if I can have a âRedâ alert appear when my bandwidth utilization of a particular interface exceeds a certain amount over the 5min interval?
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I do this using bbmrtg.pl
It works fine for my 7000 or so targets, including bandwidth, temperature, ups status, and light-levels on certain gig and 10-gig connections. 

Other people will tell you to use devmon instead of mrtg. 
> Is this possible?
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> If so, can you point me in the right direction so I can research how to set it up?
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> I have a DSL circuit I need to alert when it reaches the 500Kb upload rate.
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> Thanks,
> Mike
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