Monitoring Cisco routers

If you want traffic for each interface, you can easily pull it with any of
the MRTG systems, configure MRTG to use rrdtool and put them into the hobbit
rrd directory.  Use Hobbit to view the ports rrd traffic or mrtg.
I find the graphs for cpu/memory more useful to diagnose problems with the
switches/routers.

From: Rich Smrcina <user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:08:00 -0600
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

What about interface traffic?

rdeal wrote:

I simply use bb-xsnmp.pl to monitor cisco equipment.
It works well with hobbit, giving nice graphs for cpu, RAM, and temp
Also check fans and power

Will gather info from netapp servers and APC UPS systems among other
things...

From: "Michael A. Price" <user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid>
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:01:33 -0500
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Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

Does anyone good templates for cisco vpns ???

I have the following templates for Cisco: I have been tweeking them for
a while, and they are pretty good....

catalyst-4506
catalyst-MSFC
Catalyst-6509


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Hubbard, Greg L wrote:

There is a devmon Web page somewhere that tells you what is needed.
Google "devmon" and see what you find.

Devmon runs as a daemon, but there is a devmon command you can run every
so often via hobbitlaunch to get devmon to re-read bb-hosts.

There are some "features" about devmon that may make it less desirable
in certain environments:

A) Nothing is graphed -- traffic and errors numbers live in tables.

B) There is no convenient way to control which interfaces in a device
are monitored.  There are some inconvenient ways, however.

C) Devmon has a pretty big default footprint.  You can tune it a little
bit, but you need to know what you are doing.

GLH

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:39 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

OK, a couple of questions...

Is SNMP-Session still required?  I have Perl_SNMP installed.

Can someone please post (or send) their hobbitlaunch settings to run
devmon?

Thanks.

Johann Eggers wrote:
  

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 15:06
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

I'm looking to hear from the group about monitoring Cisco routers.  I
      

see on deadcat that there are a number of external packages to do
      

this,
    

which is the best?  Ideally we want to monitor traffic, in addition
to the standard ping test, CPU and memory would be a bonus.

      

We are currently using devmon(CPU, memory, if_stats...) and MRTG
(bandwidth) for doing that. Before that we had the tool "routermon"
inplace...

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