[collectd] How can I determine network interface status? (up/down)

[bill]

I think what the question was really about was monitoring. not just metrics

the use if metrics in an overall monitoring solution is important. collectd itself I view more as a metrics collection framework

what is really needed as part of the answer is that collectd itself is not an alerting framework. eg they need I look at something like nagios. getting nagios checks to do threshold checks against historical metrics ( say link errors in the last 30 seconds ) is very helpful

collectd itself does not necessarily know not care about individual link state

original requester - hope that helps. was that really more your question/direction?


Bill Schwanitz

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> On Apr 18, 2014, at 10:21 AM, "G.W. Haywood" <collectd at jubileegroup.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> B0;278;0cHi there,
> 
>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, (??????? ???????) wrote:
>> 
>> How can I determine network interface status? (up/down)
> 
> man ip
> man ifconfig
> 
> --
> 
> 73,
> Ged.
> 
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