Monitoring point to point 10Gig Connection

[limbooface]

I was wondering what is the best way to measure the speed of data transfer for a point to point 10G connection using zabbix?

One Server is linux the other is windows the data is server from the linux pulled onto windows.

[michael.weber]

do you want to measure the realtime Transfer Speed? use the zabbix Agent for this
if you want to verify that the Connection is 10G i would recommend to create a small unix script and grep the Connection Speed out of the ifconfig command

[limbooface]

Thanks Michael for the reply,
Both really, yes i want to measure the real time transfer speed and I want to verify the connection speed. The data is kept on the linux server however where the command will run or transfer will run is a windows 7 box so I do not think it will recognise the grep on the ifconfig as windows is ipconfig.

Do you by chance have an example?

[michael.weber]

my idea: just Monitor the Connection Speed on the unix host. If they are direct attached, the Speed should be the same on both Network Speeds.
verify the Speed on unix with These commands:

***@ste-s-***:/home/***# ethtool eth1 | grep -i "Speed"
Speed: 10000Mb/s

you could use this Output, with some small modifications, to put it to zabbix Server.

Other idea: use existing scripts. first hit by Google:

https://github.com/lesovsky/zabbix-extensions/blob/master/files/linux/scripts/check-netif-speed.sh

for the current throughput just use the existing "Template OS Linux/Windows" and check that the discover rule "Network Interface discovery" is enable. there you get Input/Output traffic

[limbooface]

Thanks Michael,

I now have point to point graphs for incoming and outgoing traffic on both ends.