[c-nsp] monitoring switch stacks

[Alan Buxey]

hi,

just wondered what folk did out there to monitor switch stacks
(eg stackwise+ switch stacks like 3750e, 2975gs etc (not the older
gigastack ones....) ) - using the basic methods such as ICMP will
only show the presence of connectivity to the stack but not the
actual health of the stack - eg one member is missing.  I'm looking
at maybe SNMP but support for MIBS in stacks seems somewhat poor
and that leaves the syslog method to alert when something happens
to the stack... best practice?

alan