Cisco Switch - Best Practices and/or recommendations?

[jsherrod]

I'm new to Nagios. I've been playing around with the Monitoring Wizard and added a Cisco switch. Like a previous thread I noticed that the interfaces were listed as random port numbers. I will email the /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg file to support shortly.

My question the forum is........ Are there any recommended best practices or recommendations for adding network devices. I would like to be able to perform basic network monitoring tasks such as up/down notifications, bandwidth monitoring, input/output errors, network module status, latency, etc.

I've played with a few of the user community plug-ins. For example check_cisco_modules.sh I've added the plug-in, configured the check command and defined a service. Unfortunately I'm monitoring a device that I know has a bad sup module and it's claiming "OK - No Bad Modules".

If someone can point me in the right direction on how to get started adding my Cisco network devices to Nagios, it would be greatly appreciated.

[admin]

The switch monitoring wizard and do bandwidth and port status (up/down) monitoring. It doesn't support input/output errors, network module status, latency, etc.

We don't have any in-house gear to test the check_cisco_modules.sh plugin. Does anyone else have some suggestions or pointers that could help?

[jsherrod]

I was able to find a Plugin that correctly determined the bad supervisor module I have is down.

check_snmp_environment.pl
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... re/details