Although SNMP polling is a great way to monitor the health of your network infrastructure it is impractical to poll every object on every device. Trap notifications can cover this visibility gap and provide immediate notification on network events.
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Monitoring Network Devices with Nagios
Nagios is a scalable, flexible. and powerful Network Monitoring solution that pairs well with graphing tools such as Cacti or MRTG. In this post I’ll share templates and configuration files to get you started with monitoring Cisco routers, switches, and security devices. (more…)
Expect Scripting For Network Engineers (Cisco)
Have you ever spent a good portion of your day repeatedly logging into all of the network devices in your data center to add the IP address of a new syslog server? Or perhaps removing the local user account of a former peer who jumped ship to greener pastures? (more…)
