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Monitoring Cisco routers

list Greg L Hubbard
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:55:18 -0600
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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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