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alert on network errors

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list John Glowacki · Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:29:42 -0400 · 
We had some system network issues recently and are looking for proactive
ways to alert out NOC of them. Would it be possible to have hobbit alert
on packet errors or collisions that have increased by some threshold number?

# netstat -i
Name  Mtu  Net/Dest      Address        Ipkts  Ierrs Opkts  Oerrs Collis
Queue
lo0   8232 loopback      localhost      1700096752 0     1700096752 0
  0      0
eri0  1500 x.x.com x.x.com 1120761762 17230093 1300984718 3     0      0


Thanks,
John
list Greg L Hubbard · Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:54:02 -0500 · 
You could use devmon to monitor the device you are connected to.
▸ quoted from John Glowacki

-----Original Message-----
From: John Glowacki [mailto:user-a1361bcdf988@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:30 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] alert on network errors

We had some system network issues recently and are looking for proactive
ways to alert out NOC of them. Would it be possible to have hobbit alert
on packet errors or collisions that have increased by some threshold
number?

# netstat -i
Name  Mtu  Net/Dest      Address        Ipkts  Ierrs Opkts  Oerrs Collis
Queue
lo0   8232 loopback      localhost      1700096752 0     1700096752 0
  0      0
eri0  1500 x.x.com x.x.com 1120761762 17230093 1300984718 3     0      0


Thanks,
John