Monitoring Cisco 3750 stacks - OIDs or traps ?

[Morris, Patrick]

Traps and polling via SNMP are generally used for two very different
purposes, and which is appropriate really depends what you mean by
"present and correct."

If you want the switches to let you know when something happens, use
traps.  If you want to pull data at regular intervals, use polling.

There's nothing to stop you from doing both.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Stanley.Hopcroft at Dest.gov.au
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 8:26 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Cisco 3750 stacks - OIDs or traps ?
> 
> Dear Folks,
> 
> We like many others have happily deployed the Cisco 370 
> stackable switch/routers in stacked configurations.
> 
> Please would anyone with experience of monitoring these units 
> with Nagios comment on how best to monitor the performance of 
> the internals.
> 
> I am particuarly interested in checking that all the switches 
> in the stack are present and correct. 
> 
> There appear to be 3 ways of checking this
> 
> 1 Net::Telnet and parsing the output of 'show inventory'
> 
> 2 Some OID with check_by_snmp (possibly from the CISCO-STACK-MIB)
> 
> 3 Traps from the stack manager
> 
> What experience have people had with these methods ?

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