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Monitor hardware firewall by Nagios core

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 2:45 am
by alidar
Hello

Can we monitor the hardware firewall by nagios core Version. If yes then please share the steps. thanks in advance.

Regards

Re: Monitor hardware firewall by Nagios core

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:15 am
by scottwilkerson
Yes but the possibilities vary based on your firewall.
Here some documentation
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... uters.html

Additional plugins are available here
https://exchange.nagios.org/

Re: Monitor hardware firewall by Nagios core

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:10 am
by alidar
Hello,

It is same configuration as we set configuration for the switch? I want to see only it is going to UP or DOWN.

Regards

Re: Monitor hardware firewall by Nagios core

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 1:10 pm
by tgriep
If I read your question right, you can use the same plugin to monitor the status of an interface for both a firewall and a switch.
All you need to to is to setup the SNMP community string, version and select the interface number and it should work for either device.