SNMP?

[Colby Williams]

OK, the Cisco devices will be easy.

1.  Figure out if they allow SNMP monitoring (READ ONLY).  That should be
easy, I am sure they allow SNMP monitoring.  I would set them up so that
they only can recieve SNMP read request from your Nagios Box.
EXAMPLE, in our devices, I had to activate SNMP, add the IP of the Nagios
box and the comminuty string.  With that said you will have to come up with
a community string that the devices and the Nagios box will share.  Default
is 'Public', CHANGE THAT!!!  easy to get compromised, everyone knows that.
2.  Download SNMPing http://www.sans.org/alerts/snmp/.  it's on the SANS
website, it's safe.
3.  With SNMPing you have to use the device IP and the community string.
Click Scan and hopefully your device will respond.  If no response, there
are a few things that might be stopping the check:  Network routes, firewall
rules, or the device is not setup properly.
Once you over come that we can can move on.


Hit me back.  If you want to continue.

Colby

On 8/11/06, Michael Radzicki <Michael.Radzicki at equilend.com> wrote:
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> Hi. Thanks for the reply. I have been asked to monitor some  CISCO routers
> and switches, in addition to monitoring disk space, CPU, processes, etc. on
> remote systems. Currently I am using nrpe to do the resource monitoring on
> the remote servers, but I have been asked to switch to SNMP.
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> *From:* Colby Williams [mailto:colby.williams at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, August 11, 2006 11:28 AM
> *To:* Michael Radzicki
> *Cc:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP?
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> To start you should research comminuty strings and MIBs.  I actually enjoy
> using SNMP for monitoring.  what type of devices are trying to monitor?
>
> Colby
>
> On 8/11/06, *Michael Radzicki* <Michael.Radzicki at equilend.com> wrote:
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> Good day all,
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>   I have been asked to integrate SNMP monitoring into the Nagios
> application here at work. I have never worked with SNMP before and was
> wondering if anyone can point me to a resource where I can learn about SNMP
> and how best to integrate it with Nagios. Thanks.
>
>
>
> Mike R
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