Switch Monitoring


Capabilities

Nagios provides complete monitoring of switches via SNMP. Switches can be monitored via SNMP v1, 2c, or 3. For this type of monitoring, thousands of different network devices are by default enabled. You can easily monitor port utilization on the switch as well as the current switch status. Additionally, by querying other SNMP metrics 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 Configuration Wizard and set up 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, service, and application availability
  • Fast detection of network outages and protocol failures


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