nagios to monitor several switch ports

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Kevin Manuel wrote:
| I would like to have Nagios alert on the status of individual switch
| ports – link up/down, traffic, etc. Is there a way to do this other than
| creating a separate host or service for each port. There are 1000’s of
| ports on our network and this doesn’t seem practical.
|
| What I would like is for a host switch to show as “warning” (or
| “critical”) if one or more switch port is down / exceeding a traffic
| limit and showing “ok” only if ALL ports are up, etc.

Don't you think this could create a big overhead that will be in excess
of using a howitzer to hunt litlle flies?

I do not think you want to know too much about individual switch ports.
Why would nagios go ape everytime I reboot my laptop? I would monitor
the hosts behind the switch ports that you care about.

Perhaps trigger alerts on real odd errors on your switch. But trying to
monitor it all will outweight the little benefits you might gain in
effort and needless alerts.

Hugo.


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