Configuration Advice

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 10:22 +0100, Robert Jackson wrote:
> I've finally managed to get my installation of Nagios (v2.3) and the
> Nagios
> Plugins (v1.4.3) running under CentOS (v4.3).
> 
> I'm now after some advice if possible. I would like to know how the
> 'real world'
> have their systems configured.
> 
> I want to be able to see all the ports on my network switches and also
> all devices
> connected to those ports on those switches.
> 
> For example:
> 
> FIREWALL(eth0)-------SWITCH-04 (port 01)--------------SWITCH-04
>                                                      |
>                                                      |
> WinXP PC (nic1)------- SWITCH-04 (port 02)--------------SWITCH-04
>                                                      |
>                                                      |
>  SWITCH-05(port 26) --SWITCH-04 (port 25)--------------SWITCH-04
> 
> Would I have to define all the ports for all switches and devices as
> hosts? If
> so would I have to define host checks for the ports as well as obviously
> the
> service level checks?
> 
<snip>
We're still pretty new to Nagios ourselves.  I would guess it depends on
whether or not all services are identical.  I found the Time-Saving
Tricks For Object Definitions page (docs/templatetricks.html) very
helpful in this regard.  Good luck - John
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