[Check_mk (english)] Best way to monitor traffic/bandwith of servers?

We have about 15-20 small offices in our WAN, and each office has a server (win or linux), a cisco router, etc. What I would like to do is monitor the link bandwidth (MPLS). Is this possible within check_mk? I have never had good luck getting “bandwidth” monitoring to work between offices using Nagios.


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We have a similar setup and check_mk (using snmp) on the cisco routers this is providing great details and graphs

cheers
Alex

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Mirza Dedic mirde@oppy.com wrote:

We have about 15-20 small offices in our WAN, and each office has a server (win or linux), a cisco router, etc. What I would like to do is monitor the link bandwidth (MPLS). Is this possible within check_mk? I have never had good luck getting “bandwidth” monitoring to work between offices using Nagios.


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alex sounds good, but can you give some more details?

thx

florus

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Subject: Re: [Check_mk (english)] Best way to monitor traffic/bandwith of servers?

We have a similar setup and check_mk (using snmp) on the cisco routers this is providing great details and graphs

cheers
Alex

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Mirza Dedic mirde@oppy.com wrote:

We have about 15-20 small offices in our WAN, and each office has a server (win or linux), a cisco router, etc. What I would like to do is monitor the link bandwidth (MPLS). Is this possible within check_mk? I have never had good luck getting “bandwidth” monitoring to work between offices using Nagios.

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Hi,

So in short we use:

  • If Cisco to Cisco Routers are in place between sites we just use check_mk with snmp
  • if Openvpn: we use virtual interfaces, which check_mk monitors and graphs.

On the Cisco routers we enable snmp and configure check_mk ( /etc/check_mk/conf.d/snmp.mk)
all_hosts = all_hosts + [

Routers in the headoffice

    'cisco-1841|all|snmp|headoffice',
    'cisco-asa-r10|all|snmp|headoffice',
    'cisco-asa-r20|all|snmp|headoffice',
    'cisco-asa-r30|all|snmp|headoffice',

    'cisco-asa-r40|all|snmp|headoffice',

]

This by default will watch all the interfaces on the routers and provided graphs on the bandwidth on each interface

behind all our cisco routers we have a some linux firewall’s with 11 virtual interfaces which check_mk also picks up by default and monitors the network bandwidth.

Each of the virtual interfaces are for each of the connections to each of the remote offices so it is very easy to see which office are using the bandwidth.

At each remote site we also have nagios/check_mk running which is monitoring the local site and via multisite (which is just great) reports back to the master.

Hope this helps

Cheers
Alex

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Florus Both flb@dtecnet.com wrote:

alex sounds good, but can you give some more details?

thx

florus

From: checkmk-en-bounces@lists.mathias-kettner.de [mailto:checkmk-en-bounces@lists.mathias-kettner.de] On Behalf Of Alex Broad
Sent: 16. september 2010 01:22
To: Mirza Dedic
Cc: ‘checkmk-en’ (checkmk-en@lists.mathias-kettner.de)
Subject: Re: [Check_mk (english)] Best way to monitor traffic/bandwith of servers?

We have a similar setup and check_mk (using snmp) on the cisco routers this is providing great details and graphs

cheers
Alex

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Mirza Dedic mirde@oppy.com wrote:

We have about 15-20 small offices in our WAN, and each office has a server (win or linux), a cisco router, etc. What I would like to do is monitor the link bandwidth (MPLS). Is this possible within check_mk? I have never had good luck getting “bandwidth” monitoring to work between offices using Nagios.

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