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cstand141 at gmail

Jun 5, 2012, 7:45 AM

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monitoring software and dependencies.

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

thank you,
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andriy.bilous at gmail

Jun 5, 2012, 7:51 AM

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Re: monitoring software and dependencies. [In reply to]

Many NMSs have this functionality under the name "events correlation",
though I can't really comment on the quality of those.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:45 PM, chris stand <cstand141 [at] gmail> 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 ?
> Do you create dependencies so that if a closet/site is down the
> devices downstream from the offline device do not generate alerts ?
>
> thank you,
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Jun 5, 2012, 8:30 AM

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Re: monitoring software and dependencies. [In reply to]

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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