How can I monitor with nagios an unmanaged switch?

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Published on 2010-05-04T11:36:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 11:38 UTC
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can i somehow monitor the unmanaged switches? it's not really monitoring if you have to ignore 4 switches..

here my excample: demarcation point | [router] / \ [u-switch] [u-switch] | / | \ [7 clients] [u-switch] | [u-switch] / | \ [6 clients] [4 clients] [5 clients]

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