OK, the Cisco devices will be easy. 1. Figure out if they allow SNMP monitoring (READ ONLY). That should be easy, I am sure they allow SNMP monitoring. I would set them up so that they only can recieve SNMP read request from your Nagios Box. EXAMPLE, in our devices, I had to activate SNMP, add the IP of the Nagios box and the comminuty string. With that said you will have to come up with a community string that the devices and the Nagios box will share. Default is 'Public', CHANGE THAT!!! easy to get compromised, everyone knows that. 2. Download SNMPing <a href="http://www.sans.org/alerts/snmp/">http://www.sans.org/alerts/snmp/</a>. it's on the SANS website, it's safe. 3. With SNMPing you have to use the device IP and the community string. Click Scan and hopefully your device will respond. If no response, there are a few things that might be stopping the check: Network routes, firewall rules, or the device is not setup properly. Once you over come that we can can move on. Hit me back. If you want to continue. Colby <div>On 8/11/06, Michael Radzicki <<a href="mailto:Michael.Radzicki@equilend.com"> Michael.Radzicki@equilend.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div> <div link="blue" vlink="blue" lang="EN-US"> <div> Hi. Thanks for the reply. I have been asked to monitor some CISCO routers and switches, in addition to monitoring disk space, CPU, processes, etc. on remote systems. Currently I am using nrpe to do the resource monitoring on the remote servers, but I have been asked to switch to SNMP. <div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </div> From: Colby Williams [mailto:<a href="mailto:colby.williams@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">colby.williams@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 11:28 AM To: Michael Radzicki Cc: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP? </div></div><div> To start you should research comminuty strings and MIBs. I actually enjoy using SNMP for monitoring. what type of devices are trying to monitor? Colby <div> On 8/11/06, Michael Radzicki <<a href="mailto:Michael.Radzicki@equilend.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Michael.Radzicki@equilend.com</a>> wrote: <div> <div link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div> Good day all, I have been asked to integrate SNMP monitoring into the Nagios application here at work. I have never worked with SNMP before and was wondering if anyone can point me to a resource where I can learn about SNMP and how best to integrate it with Nagios. Thanks. Mike R </div> </div> </div> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo <a href="http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 </a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users </a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </div> </div><div></div> </div> </div></blockquote></div>