Not complex stuff; I'm not really monitoring the router primarily (that's another group's job), but I want some kind of check whether the router, and the connection it serves, are working or not (to use as a parent for other checks, so that I get just get notified that the router is down rather than every host and server beyond it reported down if the link goes down).
Right now I'm just pinging it. That works, in the sense that I get the ping back. But I am suspicious that, if the link went down, the router would still respond to pings. Is this "best practice" in the opinion of the community? Or is using SNMP to monitor something inside the router better somehow? And if so, WHAT? One thing that comes to mind is IP-MIB::ipForwarding, which appears to be a boolean. I don't know if that indicates administrative state or actual condition, though. Should I be looking for some sort of interface state field instead? (It's a Cisco IOS Software, Catalyst 4000 L3 Switch Software (cat4000-I9S-M), Version 12.2(25)EWA11, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)). -- David Dyer-Bennet, [email protected]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
