monitoring switches

[Patrick Morris]

> What are ways that anyone has found to monitor switches and routers
> effectivly, other than adding a service to them.  i have WAN locations
> that i would like to monitor but the switches/routers in between would
> all stay pending if i dont have the host up service on them.  i only
> want them to be checked if there is an issue and nagios is back tracing.

Unless I'm mistaken (which happens more frequently than I'd care to
admit), setting them up with just a host check should do what you want.

Normally, they'd only get checked initially, when service states change,
and if a child host becomes unreachable.

Since service states won't change if you have no services, the default
behavior should do what you want, I think.  You just need to make sure
you set up the parent/child relationships correctly.

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