On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 04:16:51PM +1000, Guy Waugh wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm currently running IPVS 1.0.9 and ipvsadm 1.21 (compiled with popt
> and IPVS 1.0.9). I plan to upgrade before the year is out. All my
> services use LVS-NAT.
>
> I'm writing a Nagios plugin to check details about an LVSed service and
> return information to the monitoring host. I started trying to get the
> statistics with SNMP, but I couldn't get the LVS-MIB to work (quickly).
> Looking at /proc/net/ip_vs_stats, it seems to be overall stats for the
> director, not per service. So I thought I'd parse the output of
> 'ipvsadm' to get the statistics.
>
> I'm having a problem, however. The counters for InPkts, OutPkts, InBytes
> and OutBytes are often returned by ipvsadm with a K, M, G, or T suffix
> (e.g. numbers are in kilobytes, megabytes etc.). Unfortunately, this is
> not granular enough for running checks every 5 minutes - the counters do
> not update in that time, so it appears there is no traffic going through
> for that service.
>
> Can anyone suggest how I might get the stats values in bytes? Is there
> something in /proc for IPVS 1.0.9 that I can use, or does a later
> version of IPVS have more detailed stats somewhere?
I don't think you are in luck, however, ipdating ipvsadm to
give extra stats should be pretty easy. Can you give some more
deatils of what you are after?
--
Horms
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