LAN Monitoring With Nagios

Capabilities

Nagios can easily provide LAN monitoring capabilities. Using Nagios you can monitor the LAN for problems caused by network connections problems, overloaded servers, or other devices. Easily able to monitor LAN availability, uptime of switches and routers on the LAN. Nagios can deliver the results in a variety of visual representations and reports.

Benefits

Implementing LAN monitoring with Nagios offers the following benefits:

• Agentless monitoring, usually using SNMP
• Determine down LAN segments and alert staff immediately
• Increased server, services, and network availability
• Fast detection of network outages and protocol failures

Solutions

These Nagios solutions provide router monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• Nagios XI
• Nagios Core

Resources

• SNMP Monitoring Wizard
• SNMP Trap Nagios XI Wizard
• Linux SNMP Wizard
• SNMP Monitoring Plugins
• More SNMP Monitoring Plugins
• SNMP Addons

Documentation

• Monitoring Linux Using SNMP
• Integrating SNMP Traps With Nagios XI
• Monitoring Linux Using SNMP
• Sending SNMP Traps With Nagios XI

See Also

• SNMP Traps
• Agentless Monitoring
• Switch Monitoring