[Nagiosplug-help] Cisco Switch monitoring

[John Lewis]

Taking a much lower level look at this, has the wire path been evaluated? Are there a large number of patch panels between the switch and the server? Are the cables between devices and patches hand made? Are the interfaces on the server and the switch free of errors, dropped packets overruns collisions etc? Is there a speed or duplex mismatch? Is only one device set to autoneg vs hard set on the other?

Lewis

On May 4, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Stewart St. Dennis wrote:

> What about network sniffing tools like WireShark?
> 
> There is a philosophical / practical boundary to what Nagios should be responsible for.  At some point, specialized tools should be brought in to discover the "why" behind the "what" that Nagios uncovered. 
> 
> Just my thoughts,
> Stewart
> 
> Stewart St. Dennis
> CTO, ZAXIA 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leandro Roggerone <leandro_roggerone at dmcwireless.com>
> Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 15:51:43 
> To: <nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Reply-To: Nagios Plugin Help List <nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] Cisco Switch monitoring
> 
>  Hello everyone, I need to do a very deep monitoring on a Cisco switch, 
> I have a router and a server connected through it, and somethimes it  
> seems to be some comunication loss between them, I can not find anything 
> related neither the router or the server, so I think it could be a 
> switch issue.
> 
> Switch model is 3560.
> Actually Im monitoring:
> Cpu usage.
> Memory usage.
> Enviroment parameters
> Interface status (only up and down ports) with check_ifstatus.
> 
> So, is there any other pluging to add to my schedule? Something I can 
> use to figure out what the problem is ?
> Is there any other plugin to check ethernet link quality? like packets, 
> arp table problems ....
> Any suggestion will be nice,
> Thank you in advance, bye
> Leo.
> 
> 
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