Monitoring many cisco switches for interface errors

[Joerg Linge]

Giovanni Torres schrieb:
> I would like to monitor interface errors on the cisco switches that I 
> manage.  Most of them are 48-port switches, so I dont want to clutter 
> the nagios service detail page with hundreds of service checks for each 
> port.
> 
> Are any of you doing the same thing and if so, how are you handling it? 
>  What would be nice is to have one check per switch that will check all 
> ports and only report a warning if one or more ports are experiencing 
> errors and report only those ports in the service problems page.
> 
> I may just end up having to script something, but I'm thinking I will 
> need a database to keep track of the counters and compare the current 
> values with previous ones in order to detect any increments.

You can use check_snmp_int to do the monitoring stuff and check_multi to 
combine 48 checks to one nagios service.

http://www.my-plugin.de/wiki/projects/check_multi/start
http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_int.html

Regards
Joerg

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