Monitoring CISCO devices using SNMP

[riredondo]

hello, am looking for documentation (official from nagios) on monitoring cisco devices. the configurations needed on the client and the server side. Looking forward for your help.

[scottwilkerson]

this is going to depend on the type of CISCO device as well as what information you want to monitor.

Generally speaking just about everything on a CISCO device can be monitored with SNMP, so on the device setup SNMP, on Nagios XI you can use either the SNMP wizard or the Network Switch / Router depending on your device and what you want to monitor.

[riredondo]

thanks scott.
do you have the documentation on configuring SNMP on the cisco switch and routers and the needed configuration on the nagios server side?

[scottwilkerson]

On the Nagios XI side you can use the built in monitoring wizard.

On the cisco side, you would need to get the documentation from cisco for your specific devive, however I will say that almost all of their equipment has SNMP on it, it just needs to be setup with a community string (I even think a lot of them are pre-configured with public as a Read only community string)

[riredondo]

this is noted, scott. thanks much for the inputs.

[scottwilkerson]

no problem.