Network and Systems Management

check_rx_tx_packets

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Description:

Plugin created for capture RX and TX statistics from Linux OS interfaces. Useful to analyze packet tendencies, such as total transferred, dropped, framed and overrun packets. This script follows a very simple approach and outputs a nagios formatted metric syntax for chart creation.

Usage: check_rx_tx.py [OS Interface]

Current Version

1.0

Last Release Date

2015-08-11

Compatible With

  • Nagios 1.x
  • Nagios 2.x
  • Nagios 3.x
  • Nagios 4.x

Owner

Marcelo Varge

License

GPL

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check_rx_tx.py

Python plugin described above

Project Notes
Plugin created for capturing RX and TX statistics from Linux OS interfaces. Useful to analyze package tendencies, such as total transfered, dropped, framed and overrun packets. This plugin follows a very simple approach and outputs a nagios formatted metric syntax for chart creation. IMPORTANT: This script relies on `ifconfig` command, so soon it will be outdated but I hope to rewrite using a better replacement like ethtool or ip. To better explain the output: - RX: Received packets - TX: Transfered packets - errors: Packets which could not be transfered/received due errors - dropped: Normally indicates configuration/communication errors (eg: One side operating in half-duplex and the other in full-duplex) - overruns: The interface has two buffers, one for transmit and the other one for receive and when one of these buffers reachs its limit the surplus packets are discarted as 'overrruns' - frame: Malformed frames - carrier: Physical link error. Very common in HUBS, should not never occur with switch environments. Usage: check_rx_tx.py [OS Interface] Author: Marcelo Varge (marcelo.varge@gmail.com)
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