Switching monitoring services

[warren83]

Hello
I am setting up a bunch of HP switches to be monitored and when I run the auto discovery I notice that by default the SSH, Telnet and HTTP is being monitored. I for sure will monitor if the switch is alive using ping but does any one else out there do SSH, Telnet and Http. Just looking for best practice since I am new to this.
Thanks
Warren83

[jolson]

I for sure will monitor if the switch is alive using ping but does any one else out there do SSH, Telnet and Http

It's your call - questions like these are environment specific, you're free to pick and choose what you'd like to monitor and what you'd like to skip. I believe that if you're capable of monitoring an open listening port, you should. The monitoring check has the potential to become useful if the service ever goes down - it's especially useful in a historical context to see if the service falls over in any sort of 'pattern'.

Again, it's up to you. In my test environments I always monitor open listening ports because to me it makes more sense than 'not' monitoring them. Other people may have different opinions.

Thanks!

Jesse