Hi, Monitoring switch ports is in much case useless as you often monitor the servers behind. In case you want to do this, and test the traffic flow through them, I think the best way is to use snmmp and group the testing of ports in a few (or one) services to minimize snmp queries, and only select the ports which should be up (and/or test other ports to be down).
About 3COM Superstack switches, what do you exactly want to monitor ? Did you look in www.nagiosexchange.org or specific to snmp http://nagios.manubulon.com ? Regards, Patrick -----Message d'origine----- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Robert Jackson Envoyé : mardi 4 septembre 2007 16:22 À : [email protected] Objet : [Nagios-users] Switch Port Monitoring Advice I'm currently in the process of setting up Nagios to monitor our internal network. As part of this process, I want to monitor switch ports and probably make them the parent of the device connected to them. What is the best way of going about monitoring switch ports? In particular, if the individual ports have to be set-up as a host (?), the check_host_alive script (used for normal hosts) surely is not relevant? I really want to check specific ports are enabled, up and traffic is flowing to/from them. Does this mean that I only want to monitor the ports I have purposely enabled and don't bother monitoring the ones not enabled? Regards, Rab. =========================================================== Robert Jackson Phone: +44 (0) 141 332 7999 Software Engineer Fax: +44 (0) 141 331 2820 Walker Martyn Ltd 1 Park Circus Place Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow G3 6AH, Scotland Web: http://www.walkermartyn.co.uk =========================================================== ************************************************************************ The information in this internet E-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access, copying or re-use of information in it by anyone else is unauthorised. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Walker Martyn Ltd or any of its affiliates. If you are not the intended recipient please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Walker Martyn Ltd, company number SC197533. Company is registered in Scotland and has its registered office at 1 Park Circus Place, Glasgow G3 6AH, UK. **************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
