[c-nsp] monitoring software and dependencies.

[Florian Lohoff]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:45:48AM -0500, chris stand wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
>   For those of you with SNMP monitoring up/down tools.
> 
> Do you track up/down status of a switch port AND the server that might
> be plugged into the port ?

With strange autoneg mismatches you might only see one side go down
so you want to do this. Probably your monitoring can help you
merge those events. 

> Do you create dependencies so that if a closet/site is down the
> devices downstream from the offline device do not generate alerts ?

Using open source tools like nagios this comes for free as soon
as you put your hierarchie into the "parent" information for the hosts.

Making ports a "parent" is possible but requires much more information.
As we dont create the nagios config by hand but export it from our
configuration and inventory system this is just a matter of a few
more lines of code to do this aswell - definitly on the list.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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