On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 10:22 +0100, Robert Jackson wrote: > I've finally managed to get my installation of Nagios (v2.3) and the > Nagios > Plugins (v1.4.3) running under CentOS (v4.3). > > I'm now after some advice if possible. I would like to know how the > 'real world' > have their systems configured. > > I want to be able to see all the ports on my network switches and also > all devices > connected to those ports on those switches. > > For example: > > FIREWALL(eth0)-------SWITCH-04 (port 01)--------------SWITCH-04 > | > | > WinXP PC (nic1)------- SWITCH-04 (port 02)--------------SWITCH-04 > | > | > SWITCH-05(port 26) --SWITCH-04 (port 25)--------------SWITCH-04 > > Would I have to define all the ports for all switches and devices as > hosts? If > so would I have to define host checks for the ports as well as obviously > the > service level checks? > <snip> We're still pretty new to Nagios ourselves. I would guess it depends on whether or not all services are identical. I found the Time-Saving Tricks For Object Definitions page (docs/templatetricks.html) very helpful in this regard. Good luck - John -- John A. Sullivan III Open Source Development Corporation +1 207-985-7880 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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