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check_rx_tx_packets

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2015-08-11
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check_rx_tx.pyPython plugin described above
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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]
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IMPORTANT: This script relies on `ifconfig` command, so soon it will be outdated but I hope to rewrite using a better replacement like ethtool or ip.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)