Layer 2 connectivity awareness?

Lee Azzarello lee at dropio.com
Wed Mar 11 17:39:49 CET 2009


If your switch can do SNMP you can monitor the switchport the trunk is
connected to.

-lee

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Victor Lee <durendel at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the course of my learning (just starting out) how to work with Nagios I
> have found that it isn't aware of layer 2 connections. In other words, if I
> have 2 switches with a trunk between them Nagios doesn't seem to provide me
> a way to either note that manually on the map nor does it seem to be aware
> of that type of connectivity. The same applies to servers, there doesn't
> seem to be a way to identify which switch a server is connected to. Now I
> admit this might be due to my limited knowledge of the product so I ask the
> members here. Am I correct in this assessment?
>
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