The same checks as the others mentioned: CPU utilization, environment (Power Supplies, FAN), child-parent relationship and uptime.
Additionally to that, depending on the switch, I also check the Cisco Stack status, the memory usage and either a single port or several port ranges for their operational status. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Jim Avery <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 August 2010 10:20, Robert Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m currently on Nagios Core 3.2.1 and I’m just starting to setup > monitoring > > of our network switches. Can someone share what switch metrics they are > > recording (and find most useful). Just now, I’m only registering PING and > > Uptime (through SMNP). Also how are you handling parent/child > relationships > > for the switches/ports etc? Basically if a switch is down, then I would > only > > want to receive and alert regarding this and not anything else related to > > the port or device connected to the port. > > I configure the switch to send traps to the Nagios server (received > using snmptrapd and processed using snmptt), and configure the switch > so that traps are sent if switch-switch links go up/down but not > ordinary switch ports with servers and PCs on. > > Other than that, I monitor link bandwidth where it really interests > me, for example on the ports serving our most busy systems and one or > two which link main data centres together. > > The usual rule with Nagios parent relationships is that the parent is > the device closer to the Nagios server than the child. Don't forget > you can have more than one parent if that's how your network is. > > hth, > > Jim > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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