[Ethereal-users] Re: Monitoring Ethereal process via SNMP

[Wes Hardaker <wjhns36@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:36:33 -0400, "Champion, Tim" <Tim.Champion@xxxxxxx> 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

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Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.