Switch Monitoring With Nagios
Capabilities
Nagios provides complete monitoring of switches via SNMP. Switches can be monitored via SNMP v1, 2c, or 3. Thousands of different network devices are enabled by default for this type of monitoring. You can easily monitor Port utilization on the switch as well as the current switch status. Additionally, by querying other SNMP metric on the switch from Nagios you can additionally monitor the following metrics for each port on the switch
- ifInUcastPkts
- ifOutUcastPkts
- ifInNUcastPkts
- ifOutNUcastPkts
- ifInDiscards
- ifOutDiscards
- ifInErrors
- ifOutErrors
- ifInUnknownProtos
- and so many more!
Nagios XI makes this process even easier by allowing you to run the switch monitoring wizard and setup a whole switch in just minutes.
Benefits
Implementing effective switch monitoring with Nagios offers the following benefits:
- Agentless monitoring
- Ability to track per-port bandwidth utilization and errors
- Increased server, services, and application availability
- Fast detection of network outages and protocol failures
Solutions
These Nagios solutions provide Switch monitoring capabilities and benefits:
Video
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
Recommended Software: Nagios XI
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