How to setup argus as a interface error alarm ? (fwd)

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

 	Hello All ,

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> 	Hello All ,  RayC sent the trick to have Argus see error counts as a 
> avg-rate-bits (config .snippit below) .  I just modified the maxvalue to .001 
> , which seems to work ,  But the interface -never- alarms & is always shown 
> as up .  The original value of 10 (or even 1) does teh same thing .
> 	I really need to have the interfaces that are taking error hits to 
> show as down .  What am I missing here .
> 		Tia ,  JimL
>
> Service UDP/SNMP {
> 	calc:	ave-rate-bits
> 	label:	1.if.IN.1 Error counts
> 	maxvalue:	.001
> 	oid:	.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.14.1
> }

 	I think I am asking the wrong question ,
 	How can I in a multientity graph have the alarming color (red) always be 
on top ?
 		Tia ,  JimL

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