Switch Port Monitoring Advice

[Robert Jackson]

I'm currently in the process of setting up Nagios to monitor our
internal network. 
As part of this process, I want to monitor switch ports and probably
make them 
the parent of the device connected to them.

What is the best way of going about monitoring switch ports? In
particular, if the 
individual ports have to be set-up as a host (?), the check_host_alive
script (used
for normal hosts) surely is not relevant? I really want to check
specific ports are 
enabled, up and traffic is flowing to/from them. Does this mean that I
only want
to monitor the ports I have purposely enabled and don't bother
monitoring the 
ones not enabled?


Regards,
Rab.
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Robert Jackson                                  Phone: +44 (0) 141 332
7999
Software Engineer                                 Fax:  +44 (0) 141 331
2820
Walker Martyn Ltd
1 Park Circus Place                            Email:
rab at walkermartyn.co.uk
Glasgow G3 6AH, Scotland                   Web:
http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk
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