I’ve added in one network switch into Checkmk that we are monitoring via SNMP. I then ran auto-discovery of services and it found over 900 services to monitor on that one switch. We’re debating whether to do our network monitoring in Solarwinds and/or Checkmk and ultimatley we want to add
I have two questions.
Does it make sense to truly monitor 900 services per switch? That seems like that would eat up licensing real quick.
I know you can set a folder to do a network scan for servers, but is there a way to easily do discovery specifically for networking equipment to add and map all of our networking hardware?
Hi.
You need to define what you like to see on a switch. If this is a switch where clients connectet to, it makes sense to check only the Uplink interfaches. If it is a core switch where serever connected, it makes sense to monitor all interfaces if up or down. It depends on your scenario. You can try it with the “Network and port discavery” ruleset a little bit to remeve checks you not need.
When you say, you have 900 Services per switch, it looks to me that you discover everything, also vlan a.s.o.
That was the default auto-discovery of everything on that switch.
I presume I can tweak the “Network and port discovery” rule or make a folder with a custom rule to only monitor certain things like interface status, endpoint info and utilization but I’m not 100% sure how to do that.
The other thing I’m curious about is whether or not I can scan an IP range and discover all the network devices rather than having to manually add all of them, putting in SNMP credentials for all of them.
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