Monitoring switches

[GonEd]

I'm testing Nagios XI and I recently got it almost working the way I want.

I have a Nagios XI monitoring one of my switches (48-port Cisco switch), my question is as follows. Is there a way to have report, on screen, and notify, via email, only specific ports on the switch?
Right now, it's reporting and emailing me on all ports that go down, which is fine, but I don't need to monitor users' ports, rather I'd like to monitor ports where my servers and router are connected. Can this be done, and where? I think the other thing would be how to tell Nagios not to spam when I'm adding a new switch and many of the ports are down because there aren't devices connected to them.

[slansing]

If you know which ports these are, you could change the Alert Settings via CCM > Services > (name).

[GonEd]

So, when adding a new switch or router, then I have to manually disable the service for those ports that are down? Is this the best practice when adding SNMP devices?

[slansing]

If you do not want to monitor them, then you can leave them out of the wizard selection when you get to that point. However, if you still want to add them, then yes, you need to manually disable the services in the CCM.