NIC monitoring

[keerthi.seetharaman]

Hello Team,

We have requirement for monitoring of NIC via Nagios.

Can you please suggest is it possible for monitoring the NIC card.

Regards,
Keerthi Prashanth S.

[mcapra]

It depends on the NIC, the operating system, and specifically what metric you're trying to monitor.

Here's some official documentation for checking network interfaces:
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... s-781.html

[kyang]

Thanks for the help @mcapra!

keerthi.seetharaman, please let us know if you have any more questions and provide us with more details.

[keerthi.seetharaman]

Thanks @mcapra.

We would like to monitor for windows 2008/2012 servers for NIC card network status.

Please provide us which plugin can be used and how to proceed further.

Regards,\
Keerthi Prashanth S

[scottwilkerson]

You can monitor the NIC with NCPA
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

[keerthi.seetharaman]

But the server is nsclient.

Please suggest what needs to be done

[scottwilkerson]

Go to the page previously mentioned
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... s-781.html

and scroll down to the NSClient++ section (there are 2 of them)

[keerthi.seetharaman]

Hello Scott,

is it possible for Nagios XI as there is no script for network check.

What can be done for the same.

[scottwilkerson]

Hello Scott,

is it possible for Nagios XI as there is no script for network check.

What can be done for the same.

I'm sorry I don't understand the question

[gwakem]

As previously posted above, install the NCPA agent on the server to be monitored and use the NCPA Wizard in Nagios XI to monitor the ethernet bandwidth. This is the easiest route.
Also mentioned above was the link to instructions on how to set up monitoring for ethernet bandwidth when you use NSClient++ as the monitoring agent. This is what you indicated you are using currently. This requires manual configuration of the NSClient.ini config on the server you are monitoring (how to is which is detailed in the link posted.) This is slightly more work.
Between these two solutions, you should have everything you need in order to set up the monitoring you requested.