rab at walkermartyn.co.uk - Email found in subject - Re: Bonding/Teaming Monitoring

[Matthew J. Salerno]

If you want to monitor ports you could probably check the port status from the switch via snmp and add that as a dependency to the server.  You could also check the port status of the bonded nics via snmp on the server itself.  No need to duplicate anything.

"Robert Jackson" <rab at walkermartyn.co.uk> wrote:

>Thanks for the reply Jim,
>
>I take it I'm looking at duplicating hosts and services if I choose not
>to go down the route of the switches sending traps (just seems like more
>work I can do without)? I was kind of thinking the switches would be
>parents of the ports which in turn would be parents of the network
>devices (servers, pc's printers etc). That way if a port went down for
>instance, I would only get alerts for the port and not for the services
>of the device attached to that port. Seem logical?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Avery [mailto:jim at jimavery.me.uk] 
>Sent: Tuesday 17 August 2010 08:56
>To: Nagios Users List
>Subject: rab at walkermartyn.co.uk - Email found in subject - Re:
>[Nagios-users] Bonding/Teaming Monitoring
>
>On 17 August 2010 06:55, Robert Jackson <rab at walkermartyn.co.uk> wrote:
>> My current situation is that I have 2 core switches (Cisco 2960G's) in
>a
>> failover capability. Every one of our servers (Windows, RHEL &
>Solaris) has
>> NIC bonding/teaming enabled and obviously one switch serves network
>access
>> to NIC #0, the other switch serves network access to NIC #1.
>>
>> I'm looking for the best way to setup failover monitoring of the
>switch
>> ports and server connections under my setup.
>
>I don't use Cisco kit myself, but I would guess you would get the
>relevant alerts by configuring your switches to send snmp traps.
>You'll need to configure snmptrapd on your Nagios server to receive
>them and use snmptt to get them in to Nagios one way or another
>(either via the command interface or via a database using NagTrap for
>example).
>
>hth,
>
>Jim
>
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