Alert on interface if utilization is over X% and happens 3 times over a specific period of time.

Question

I need to find out if there is a way to alert on an interface if utilization is over X% and happens something like 3 times over a specific period of time.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

sachsj · Answer

Thanks for the reply

My polling interval for SNMP is 9 minutes for most.   So what I am looking for is to alert on a MetroE interface if that interface hits 85% for 15 or more minutes and also if it happens 3 times within a week.   We only want tickets if it hits that 3 times in a week threshold.

the_ben_keen · Answer

I'm sure there are easier ways, but what is your polling cycle?  The reason I ask is that you can set the alert to not trigger if the X% condition is not met and held for M minutes.  So if you have a 5-minute polling cycle if you put that the conditions must be true for 15 minutes that's 3 polling cycles.