Re: Monitoring Ethereal process via SNMP
Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.ethereal.user |
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| Organization | Sparta |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>>>>> On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:36:33 -0400, "Champion, Tim" <[email protected]> said: Tim> Thanks Jens, I did have a quick look at the processes associated Tim> with Ethereal, unfortunately there's just a single process Tim> irrespective of whether or not it's actively capturing. Yeah, it can't monitor whether or not the process is actually doing something or not. It might actually be best to write to a file (possibly with tcpdump instead) instead and then you can use net-snmp's filetable (see the "file" keyword) to monitor the size and make sure it's increasing. UCD-SNMP-MIB::fileSize.1 = INTEGER: 181 kB -- Wes Hardaker Sparta, Inc.