Unmanaged switch

[Christian Schneemann]

On Monday October 20 2008 11:38:04 am Paul Weaver wrote:
> How about a new command called "fakecheck", and apply to a "dumbswitch"
> host with a 127.0.0.1 address. It would take a list of machines, and
> check them all. If any of them are up, then the fakecheck would return
> OK, otherwise it would return an error state.
Just for understanding, you would check if the hosts which are connected to 
this dumbswitch are up?

But they are tested anyhow..


greetings,
	Christian

>
> Something like
>  #!/usr/bin/perl
>  my $up = 0;
>  my @hosts = qw/10.1.2.3 10.1.2.4 10.1.2.5 10.1.2.6/;
>  foreach $addr (@hosts) {
>  	if (pingCheck($addr)) {	$up++; }
>  }
>  if ($up > 0) {
> 	print "OK: Switch must be up\n";
> 	exit 0;
>  } else {
> 	print "CRITICAL: Switch may be down\n";
> 	exit 2;
>  }
>
> (If you're good at programming you could probably get a list of children
> out of the config -- complex configs take a long time to read in using
> perl though)
>
> Another way of monitoring would be to have it powered off an SNMP
> enabled MDU which can tell the current being drawn. You could then
> measure that.
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike [mailto:mike at csits.net]
> > Sent: 20 October 2008 09:48
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Unmanaged switch
> >
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > What is the best way to include an unmanaged (read: IPless)
> > switch in Nagios?  Obviously I can't monitor it directly, but
> > I'd like Nagios to be aware of it in the network heirachy so
> > that it is aware that it is a possible poit of failure.  Can
> > I just define it as a host with no IP address and make it a
> > parent/client of the devices that attach to it or is there a
> > better way to approach this?
> >
> > Mike.
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