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Command to grep and the Drop Count for scripting

Hi,

I would like to set up the script to monitor the Network interface level packet drops, in which I would like to set up the logic in such a way that when dropped:0 will increase above 100 it should send alert.

RX packets:237722797 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

Please let me know an idea how we can set the logic for this in bash script ?

Thanks
Rajan

rajaniyer123,

For the short term, depending on what you need, you might be able to do something, simple, and brute force such as this:

Code:

#!/bin/bash



dropped_count=`/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | fgrep 'RX packets' | cut -d: -f3-3 | cut -d' ' -f1`



while [[  1  -eq  1  ]]

    do

        if [[  $dropped_count  -gt  100  ]]

            then

            # Put actual ALERT logic here instead of the echo.

            echo ALERT

        fi



        sleep 60

    done

But long term, if I wanted to monitor dropped packets, especially if I thought I might need to do something more involved with it in the future, then for the sake of elegance, I might look into something like extending iptables, building a custom module, so I could launch whatever program I wished, when a threshold was exceeded.

Hope this helps.