Monitoring a Cisco ASA

[digitalbennu]

I will fully admit...I am a stark newbie when it comes to configuring Nagios....What I am trying to do is configure Nagios to read the log file from my Cisco ASA 5505. I have found plugin's but not really any instructions to tell me how to configure Nagios or what has to be done to the ASA.

Can anyone help me out here?

[sreinhardt]

You would likely want to look at syslogd server and a plugin to monitor that. Could you point us towards what you have already found?

[digitalbennu]

Honestly I haven't found much....I Googled monitoring a cisco asa in nagios and got

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... IX/details

Not much more then that.

Do I need to create a syslogd server in Nagios?

Also looking to be able to monitor the thru put and other stats on the ASA.

[sreinhardt]

That particular plugin would use snmp for monitoring your device, which is the generally accepted model. Short of looking over your device log files what are you attempting to monitor? The switch and router wizard is great for port status and bandwidth, and if you need other events snmptraps might be a good idea to look into. Otherwise for syslog setup, yes most likely you would need to configure cisco to send to an server on the nagios machine and sift through it from their.