Enumerating Interfaces

[Jason Frisvold]

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On 09/08/2010 12:48 PM, Max wrote:
> What I have done in the past and currently do is that each port that
> is connected to another networking device is modelled as a Nagios host
> - the host check is then the SNMP port status and the IF stats are
> collected as services on the host.  The parent of the port is the
> network device itself and that way any child devices can be associated
> with the port and will be marked as unreachable should the port be
> administratively or operationally turned down.

I had been doing this previously, but it never felt right, especially
considering I had to create "fake" names for the ports in nagios..  It
definitely had its benefits, though, so maybe we'll head back around to
this method again..  I wish there was a better way to tie a "port" to a
host..  Perhaps a tag that marks it as a physical child of a host,
inherits the hostname and ip and uses the alias to differentiate it from
the main host.  Then parent/child would work, you could tie services to
it properly, etc.

Hrm.. I'll have to submit this as an enhancement request..  :)

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Jason Frisvold
Network Engineer
frisvolj at lafayette.edu
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"What I cannot create, I do not understand"
   - Richard Feynman
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