Monitoring Cisco routers

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list Rich Smrcina · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:05:53 -0600 ·

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.

Thanks,
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list Pnixon · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:15:23 -0500 ·

Look at Devmon.

It does a good job of pulling the information out of SNMP.

--Pat

▸ quoted from Rich Smrcina

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:06 AM
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.

Thanks,
--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
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list Johann Eggers · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:20:37 +0100 ·

▸ quoted from Rich Smrcina

-----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...

list Rich Smrcina · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:23:38 -0600 ·

I thought of that, too.  Thanks.

▸ quoted from Pnixon


user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid wrote:

Look at Devmon.

It does a good job of pulling the information out of SNMP.

--Pat 
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:06 AM
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.

Thanks,
--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

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list Dan Vande More · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:24:43 -0600 ·

I'd have to second the devmon suggestion. I just wish it had more defaults.
Unfortunately(or fortunately:)), I no longer work at the place I had to use
devmon for, so can't offer my configs to that end.

▸ quoted from Rich Smrcina


On 1/11/07, user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid <user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Look at Devmon.

It does a good job of pulling the information out of SNMP.

--Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:06 AM
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.

Thanks,
--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
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list Holly Lund · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:37:52 -0500 ·

I am installing hobbit 4.2 on a solaris 10 zone
 
I cannot get hobbitping to work
 
get:
                 Cannot get RAW socket: Permission denied
 
I believe this to be an issue with solaris 10 zones
 
Is there some way around this?
 
I added the lines to hobbit lines 
In /etc/user_attr:
hobbit::::profiles=Hobbit Commands

In /etc/security/exec_attr:
Hobbit Commands:solaris:cmd:::/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping:uid=0

In /etc/security/prof_attr:
Hobbit Commands:::Hobbit Commands:
 
 
that i found on a wiki site but to no avail 
 
Holly Lund
3-1174

list T.J. Yang · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:44:43 -0600 ·

▸ quoted from Holly Lund

From: "Lund, Holly" <user-15ee9e30aac3@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:37:52 -0500

I am installing hobbit 4.2 on a solaris 10 zone

I cannot get hobbitping to work

get:
                 Cannot get RAW socket: Permission denied

I believe this to be an issue with solaris 10 zones

Is there some way around this?

I added the lines to hobbit lines
In /etc/user_attr:
hobbit::::profiles=Hobbit Commands

In /etc/security/exec_attr:
Hobbit Commands:solaris:cmd:::/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping:uid=0

In /etc/security/prof_attr:
Hobbit Commands:::Hobbit Commands:


that i found on a wiki site but to no avail

I remember I got same problem when trying to follow the instruction on 
hobbit wiki.
I ended up setuid on fping command for now.

tj

Holly Lund
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list Johann Eggers · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:49:49 +0100 ·

▸ quoted from T.J. Yang

-----Original Message-----
From: T.J. Yang [mailto:user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 15:45
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

From: "Lund, Holly" <user-15ee9e30aac3@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:37:52 -0500

I am installing hobbit 4.2 on a solaris 10 zone

I cannot get hobbitping to work

get:
                 Cannot get RAW socket: Permission denied

I believe this to be an issue with solaris 10 zones

Is there some way around this?

I added the lines to hobbit lines
In /etc/user_attr:
hobbit::::profiles=Hobbit Commands

In /etc/security/exec_attr:
Hobbit

Commands:solaris:cmd:::/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping:uid=0

In /etc/security/prof_attr:
Hobbit Commands:::Hobbit Commands:


that i found on a wiki site but to no avail

I remember I got same problem when trying to follow the instruction on
hobbit wiki.
I ended up setuid on fping command for now.

Sorry,
But what has this to do with the subject ??

list Michael A. Price · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:16:54 -0500 ·

DEVMON is the best ;-)

Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
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▸ quoted from Rich Smrcina



Rich Smrcina wrote:

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.

Thanks,

list Rich Smrcina · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:20:48 -0600 ·

OK, I see the light...  Thanks to all who responded, I'm configuring it now.

▸ quoted from Michael A. Price


Michael A. Price wrote:

DEVMON is the best ;-)

Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
           Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
           Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
           e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid


Rich Smrcina wrote:

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.

Thanks,

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

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list Holly Lund · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:38:23 -0500 ·

sorry forgot to change subject line
 
revised subject line
 
Holly Lund
3-1174

▸ quoted from Johann Eggers



From: Johann Eggers [mailto:user-769b09132207@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 9:49 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

-----Original Message-----
From: T.J. Yang [mailto:user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 15:45
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

From: "Lund, Holly" <user-15ee9e30aac3@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:37:52 -0500

I am installing hobbit 4.2 on a solaris 10 zone

I cannot get hobbitping to work

get:
                 Cannot get RAW socket: Permission denied

I believe this to be an issue with solaris 10 zones

Is there some way around this?

I added the lines to hobbit lines
In /etc/user_attr:
hobbit::::profiles=Hobbit Commands

In /etc/security/exec_attr:
Hobbit

Commands:solaris:cmd:::/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping:uid=0

In /etc/security/prof_attr:
Hobbit Commands:::Hobbit Commands:


that i found on a wiki site but to no avail

I remember I got same problem when trying to follow the instruction on
hobbit wiki.
I ended up setuid on fping command for now.

Sorry,
But what has this to do with the subject ??

list Trent Melcher · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:30:32 -0600 ·

Next time could you please not create a new thread this way,  replying
to an existing thread and changing the Subject still puts your emails
under the old thread.  Look at this link and you will see what Im
talking about.  http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/01/threads.html

Always generate a new email when creating a new thread on a listserv,
this helps keep all threads clean and on the same subject.

Thanks
Trent

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▸ quoted from Holly Lund

-----Original Message-----
From: Lund, Holly [mailto:user-15ee9e30aac3@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:38 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

sorry forgot to change subject line
 
revised subject line
 
Holly Lund
3-1174


From: Johann Eggers [mailto:user-769b09132207@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 9:49 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

-----Original Message-----
From: T.J. Yang [mailto:user-8e841282cda5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 15:45
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

From: "Lund, Holly" <user-15ee9e30aac3@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:37:52 -0500

I am installing hobbit 4.2 on a solaris 10 zone

I cannot get hobbitping to work

get:
                 Cannot get RAW socket: Permission denied

I believe this to be an issue with solaris 10 zones

Is there some way around this?

I added the lines to hobbit lines
In /etc/user_attr:
hobbit::::profiles=Hobbit Commands

In /etc/security/exec_attr:
Hobbit

Commands:solaris:cmd:::/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitping:uid=0

In /etc/security/prof_attr:
Hobbit Commands:::Hobbit Commands:


that i found on a wiki site but to no avail

I remember I got same problem when trying to follow the 
instruction on 
hobbit wiki.
I ended up setuid on fping command for now.

Sorry,
But what has this to do with the subject ??

list Rich Smrcina · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:38:33 -0600 ·

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.

▸ quoted from Johann Eggers


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...

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

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list Thomas Pedersen · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:47:58 +0100 ·

I have this in a corn job

-bash-2.05b$ crontab -l
*/5 * * * * /hobbit/devmon/devmon --readbbhosts > /dev/null 2>&1

▸ quoted from Rich Smrcina



Rich Smrcina wrote:

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...

list Johann Eggers · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:51:16 +0100 ·

▸ quoted from Rich Smrcina

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 17:39
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.

Yes...
This is used in the devmon/modules/dm_snmp.pm module:

# Modules
  use strict;
  use BER;
  use Socket;
  use IO::Handle;
  use IO::Select;
  use SNMP_Session;
  use POSIX ":sys_wait_h";
  use Math::BigInt;
  use Storable qw(nfreeze thaw);
  use dm_config;

▸ quoted from Thomas Pedersen

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

I run devmon in daemon mode(5 min interval) outside of Hobbit. 
A couple of options are configurable in the devmon.cfg file.

Please read the README that come along with devmon...

Thanks.

list Rich Smrcina · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:53:04 -0600 ·

OK, thanks again.

▸ quoted from Johann Eggers


Johann Eggers wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 17:39
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.

Yes...
This is used in the devmon/modules/dm_snmp.pm module:

# Modules
  use strict;
  use BER;
  use Socket;
  use IO::Handle;
  use IO::Select;
  use SNMP_Session;
  use POSIX ":sys_wait_h";
  use Math::BigInt;
  use Storable qw(nfreeze thaw);
  use dm_config;

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

I run devmon in daemon mode(5 min interval) outside of Hobbit. 
A couple of options are configurable in the devmon.cfg file.

Please read the README that come along with devmon...

Thanks.

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
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list Greg L Hubbard · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:55:18 -0600 ·

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

▸ quoted from Rich Smrcina

-----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...

--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
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list Michael A. Price · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:01:33 -0500 ·

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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Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
            Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
            Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
            e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid

▸ quoted from Greg L Hubbard

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...

--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
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list Rdeal · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:07:31 -0500 ·

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...

▸ quoted from Michael A. Price

From: "Michael A. Price" <user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid>
Reply-To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:01:33 -0500
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
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

Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
            Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
            Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
            e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid

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...

--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
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list Rich Smrcina · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:08:00 -0600 ·

What about interface traffic?

▸ quoted from Rdeal


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>
Reply-To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:01:33 -0500
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
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

Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
            Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
            Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
            e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid

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...

--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

list Pnixon · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:10:50 -0500 ·

Michael,
 I'm interested the templates, can you mail them over?

--Pat

▸ quoted from Michael A. Price


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A. Price [mailto:user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:02 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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


Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
            Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
            Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
            e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid


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...

--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

list Rdeal · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:17:04 -0500 ·

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.

▸ quoted from Rich Smrcina

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>
Reply-To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:01:33 -0500
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
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

Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
            Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
            Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
            e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid

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...

--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

list Thomas Pedersen · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:23:02 +0100 ·

Is that 6509 with IOS or CatOS ?

If its IOS then I would also be very interested.

Br Thomas

▸ quoted from Michael A. Price


Michael A. Price wrote:

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


Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
           Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
           Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
           e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid


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...

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

list Rich Smrcina · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:44:46 -0600 ·

I have devmon installed, but when I run it from the command line (to test it), I get the following:

hobbit at hobbit:/usr/local/devmon> ./devmon --readbbhosts
[07-01-11 at 11:20:11] Could not query device: GO_Router

The bb-hosts entry for GO_Router has 'devmon' as a test name (I changed the test name in devmon.cfg).

Does devmon try to to name resolution, or will it honor the testip directive in bb-hosts?

▸ quoted from Johann Eggers


Johann Eggers wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 17:39
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.

Yes...
This is used in the devmon/modules/dm_snmp.pm module:

# Modules
  use strict;
  use BER;
  use Socket;
  use IO::Handle;
  use IO::Select;
  use SNMP_Session;
  use POSIX ":sys_wait_h";
  use Math::BigInt;
  use Storable qw(nfreeze thaw);
  use dm_config;

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

I run devmon in daemon mode(5 min interval) outside of Hobbit. A couple of options are configurable in the devmon.cfg file.

Please read the README that come along with devmon...

Thanks.

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

list Johann Eggers · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:01:55 +0100 ·

▸ quoted from Rich Smrcina

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 7:44 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers
 I have devmon installed, but when I run it from the command line (to test it), I get the following:

hobbit at hobbit:/usr/local/devmon> ./devmon --readbbhosts
[07-01-11 at 11:20:11] Could not query device: GO_Router

The bb-hosts entry for GO_Router has 'devmon' as a test name (I changed the test name in devmon.cfg).

Does devmon try to to name resolution, or will it honor the testip directive in bb-hosts?


Do you have the correct SNMP-READ community string?

Better switch to the devmon mailing-list for this topic...

list Rich Smrcina · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:06:56 -0600 ·

Straight from the admin.  It goes in the SNMPCIDS field, right?

▸ quoted from Johann Eggers


Johann Eggers wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 7:44 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

I have devmon installed, but when I run it from the command line (to
test it), I get the following:

hobbit at hobbit:/usr/local/devmon> ./devmon --readbbhosts
[07-01-11 at 11:20:11] Could not query device: GO_Router

The bb-hosts entry for GO_Router has 'devmon' as a test name (I changed
the test name in devmon.cfg).

Does devmon try to to name resolution, or will it honor the testip
directive in bb-hosts?

Do you have the correct SNMP-READ community string?

Better switch to the devmon mailing-list for this topic...

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

list Johann Eggers · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:10:56 +0100 ·

▸ quoted from Rich Smrcina

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 10:06 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers
 
Straight from the admin.  It goes in the SNMPCIDS field, right?


Hi Rich,

I think that's so (don't nail me on this); but I can't proove this, cause I'm currently @ home...
Again: I think this is a little bit Off-topic for the Hobbit-list...

Johann

▸ quoted from Johann Eggers


Johann Eggers wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 7:44 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

I have devmon installed, but when I run it from the command line (to
test it), I get the following:

hobbit at hobbit:/usr/local/devmon> ./devmon --readbbhosts
[07-01-11 at 11:20:11] Could not query device: GO_Router

The bb-hosts entry for GO_Router has 'devmon' as a test name (I changed
the test name in devmon.cfg).

Does devmon try to to name resolution, or will it honor the testip
directive in bb-hosts?

Do you have the correct SNMP-READ community string?

Better switch to the devmon mailing-list for this topic...

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

list Rich Smrcina · Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:16:48 -0600 ·

Fair enough...  I'll check with the devmon folks.

▸ quoted from Johann Eggers


Thanks.

Johann Eggers wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 10:06 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

Straight from the admin.  It goes in the SNMPCIDS field, right?

Hi Rich,

I think that's so (don't nail me on this); but I can't proove this, 
cause I'm currently @ home...
Again: I think this is a little bit Off-topic for the Hobbit-list...

Johann

Johann Eggers wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 7:44 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

I have devmon installed, but when I run it from the command line (to
test it), I get the following:

hobbit at hobbit:/usr/local/devmon> ./devmon --readbbhosts
[07-01-11 at 11:20:11] Could not query device: GO_Router

The bb-hosts entry for GO_Router has 'devmon' as a test name (I changed
the test name in devmon.cfg).

Does devmon try to to name resolution, or will it honor the testip
directive in bb-hosts?

Do you have the correct SNMP-READ community string?

Better switch to the devmon mailing-list for this topic...

--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

list Michael A. Price · Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:47:30 -0500 ·

Here is the Templates I have been tweaking over the last 3 months to 
get DEVMON monitoring some of my cisco/nokia gear.

http://www.ng-bs.com/downloads/Devmon_Custom_Templates.zip

Cisco-4506 CAT OS
Cisco-6509 CAT OS
Cisco-MSFC ( for a 6509 )
Nokia-IPSO ( just one OID I monitor, "clustering state" )

if anyone has some better ones or changes to make to my templates, 
please let me know...
I would love to get some more OID's working with my gear ;-)

thanks, michael

▸ signature


Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
           Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
           Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
           e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid

▸ quoted from Thomas Pedersen

user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid wrote:

Michael,
 I'm interested the templates, can you mail them over?

--Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A. Price [mailto:user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, 
January 11, 2007 12:02 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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

Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
            Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
            Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
            e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid

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...

-- 
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2007 - Green Bay, WI - May 18-22, 2007

list Pnixon · Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:33:41 -0500 ·

Hey Michael,
 I just dumped the templates into my devmon.  I did have to add WS-C6509 to
the specs file on the sysdesc line to have it see my two units.

Anyways, I'm getting the following errors and wanted to see if they were
something you've seen before and possibly had a fix for.  If not no worries,
I'll just kill those queries.

Thanks!
--Pat

[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/cpu template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/fans template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/if_dsc template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/if_err template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/if_load template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/if_stat template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/power template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] No SNMP data found for sysReloadReason on core
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] No SNMP data found for CPUTotal5Min on core
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] No SNMP data found for ifOutPktsSec on core
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] No SNMP data found for ifOutCollisions on core
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] Missing repeater data for trans_delta on ifOutCps
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] Data type mismatch for leaf 1 of ifOutCps on core:
'Missing primary oid data' does not match regex '^[-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?$'
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] Data type mismatch for leaf 1 of ifOutCps on core:
'Missing primary oid data' does not match regex '^[-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?$'

▸ quoted from Michael A. Price


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A. Price [mailto:user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:48 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid; user-563e14babad8@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

Here is the Templates I have been tweaking over the last 3 months to 
get DEVMON monitoring some of my cisco/nokia gear.

http://www.ng-bs.com/downloads/Devmon_Custom_Templates.zip

Cisco-4506 CAT OS
Cisco-6509 CAT OS
Cisco-MSFC ( for a 6509 )
Nokia-IPSO ( just one OID I monitor, "clustering state" )

if anyone has some better ones or changes to make to my templates, 
please let me know...
I would love to get some more OID's working with my gear ;-)

thanks, michael

Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
           Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
           Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
           e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid


user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid wrote:

Michael,
 I'm interested the templates, can you mail them over?

--Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A. Price [mailto:user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, 
January 11, 2007 12:02 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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

Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
            Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
            Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
            e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid

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...

--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

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18-22, 2007

list Michael A. Price · Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:46:02 -0500 ·

I get random errors like that myself...

The only thing we could attribute to was the switch was overloaded and 
didnt respond fast enough to that snmpwalk.

They only thing I can say is to take the oid's out of the oid files and 
manually do a snmpwalk/get on them to verify that they work for that 
CAT-OS-IMAGE .

We have found that different CAT-OS-IMAGE's respond to some OID's and 
not others...

sorry, michael

▸ signature



Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
            Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
            Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
            e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid

▸ quoted from Pnixon

user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid wrote:

Hey Michael,
 I just dumped the templates into my devmon.  I did have to add WS-C6509 to
the specs file on the sysdesc line to have it see my two units.

Anyways, I'm getting the following errors and wanted to see if they were
something you've seen before and possibly had a fix for.  If not no worries,
I'll just kill those queries.

Thanks!
--Pat

[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/cpu template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/fans template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/if_dsc template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/if_err template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/if_load template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/if_stat template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:29:33] Attempting to redefine cisco/6509/power template in
/home/bb/devmon/templates.
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] No SNMP data found for sysReloadReason on core
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] No SNMP data found for CPUTotal5Min on core
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] No SNMP data found for ifOutPktsSec on core
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] No SNMP data found for ifOutCollisions on core
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] Missing repeater data for trans_delta on ifOutCps
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] Data type mismatch for leaf 1 of ifOutCps on core:
'Missing primary oid data' does not match regex '^[-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?$'
[07-01-12 at 14:30:01] Data type mismatch for leaf 1 of ifOutCps on core:
'Missing primary oid data' does not match regex '^[-+]?\d+(\.\d+)?$' 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A. Price [mailto:user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:48 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid; user-563e14babad8@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

Here is the Templates I have been tweaking over the last 3 months to 
get DEVMON monitoring some of my cisco/nokia gear.

http://www.ng-bs.com/downloads/Devmon_Custom_Templates.zip

Cisco-4506 CAT OS
Cisco-6509 CAT OS
Cisco-MSFC ( for a 6509 )
Nokia-IPSO ( just one OID I monitor, "clustering state" )

if anyone has some better ones or changes to make to my templates, 
please let me know...
I would love to get some more OID's working with my gear ;-)

thanks, michael

Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
           Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
           Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
           e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid


user-c102b8958c7a@xymon.invalid wrote:

Michael,
 I'm interested the templates, can you mail them over?

--Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael A. Price [mailto:user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, 
January 11, 2007 12:02 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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

Michael A. Price
Performance Network Engineering
NASA/GSFC Code 440.8/LMB
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770
            Phone:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
            Cell:   XXX-XXX-XXXX
            e-mail: user-2a9e3c790857@xymon.invalid

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...

--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

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18-22, 2007

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