Nagios Support Forum

Hi,

We have requirement from network team, there is a ongoing issues with BICS zone switches and after a certain period of SNMP polling, the switches management port is getting unresponsive.

Cisco suggested:

Best practice is to move SNMP polling to a network interface instead of the management interface.

Below you can find the MIBs that are supported on the Management interface:

SMNP (only the ENTITY-MIB and the IF-MIB)

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/s ... on_1730254


We like know by using only MIB's can we monitor the switches in nagios.

Hi,

Can you please provide those MIB files? I tried but the SFTP site doesn't allow anonymous
access.

Also, do you have a list of what you were monitoring through the Management console?

Thanks

Hi Smith,

I have provided the MIB's through PM, please check and let us know.

We like to monitor up link interfaces, CPU, Memory and Uptime.

Please help us to setup the monitoring using MIB, that will great helpful for us.

Thanks,
Vignesh

Hi Vignesh,

I checked the PM and it looks like the files failed to get attached.
Please resend.

Thanks

Hi Smith,

Attached MIB files once for your reference. Please check and let me know.

Thanks,
Vigneshwar

Hi,

You can use the SNMP Walk Wizard, the SNMP Wizard or the Network Switch/Router wizard.

If you can get a list of OIDs from Cisco of what you want to monitor you could plug
them into the SNMP Wizard. I am guessing you might already have these depending on
how the Management Console was working.

Start with the Network Switch/Router wizard. You will need to know the IP
of the switch. The default port of 161 should be fine. Select the tab of the version of SNMP
the switch is using. The SNMP Community is the "password" for the device if it is using
SNMP version 2c, it may be set or it may be "public". Continue through the wizard, and let me
know if you can:
1) connect
2) the wizard was able to scan the ports.

Thanks