This article will explain some parts of monitoring a Cisco Catalyst 2970 switch via SNMP and Nagios. Together with NagiosGrapher it gets an powerful combination to have a longtime overview about that device and you can create nice graphics like that:

Prepare the switch for SNMP requests from a SNMP polling host (here 192.168.200.200) :

access-list 60 permit 192.168.200.200
snmp-server community yoursnmpcommunitystring RO 60
snmp-server location "near the backbone"
snmp-server contact "admin@myswitch.de"

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