Monitoring PIX Failover using SNMP and Nagios

10 Aug 2006

I've several pairs of Cisco PIX failover clusters, till now I've never really monitored their status because I do not have snmp-trap servers but today I discovered one pair did a failover due to a cable problem a while ago so I figured it's time I do something about it.

I've written a quick guide on using Nagios, Net-SNMP and a few MIBs from Cisco to monitor it and to alert you if any change in the status of your failover clusters happen.

You can get the full document on my Wiki at http://www.devco.net/pubwiki/PIX/MonitorFailoverWithNagios

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 12:09 AM

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