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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.

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.

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?

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)

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

no problem.