I have a few type 2 services with limited visibility beyond my handoffs. I need to be able to trigger an alarm when bandwidth TX or RX goes to zero packets per second for say 5 minutes. This would help our NOC be more proactive about a possible issue upstream of our network. We have snmp and network elements set up in NPM already and actively monitor and have alarms for errors and high bandwidth usage on standard ethernet interfaces... Works great. Just struggling with how to make the happen for no usage. Hope one of you out there has done this and can share your method.
