[hobbit] Cisco monitoring?

dOCtoR MADneSs doctor at makelofine.org
Thu Mar 19 16:38:45 CET 2009


Husemann, Harald a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> you should run "devmon --readbbhosts -vvv --debug" and examine the 
> output, if it was able to contact the switch and figure out the 
> template for it from the sysdesc string.
>
> hh
>
> William Ottley schrieb:
>> Yep I noticed that: but I thought it wasn't working since I didn't see
>> anything in the log file...LOL guess I assumed something would go 
>> wrong? LOL
>>
>> Anyways I noticed the hosts.db file was being udpated.
>>
>> Now the next step is to figure out how I go about doing the tests:
>> bandwidth, uptime, etc for the asa5500
>>
>>
>> On 19/03/09 10:21 AM, "Husemann, Harald" <Harald.Husemann at materna.de> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi William,
>>>
>>> all you have to do is including your switches in the bb-hosts, with a
>>> line like this:
>>>
>>> <ip> <host> # DEVMON
>>>
>>> Then, run "devmon --readbbhosts", and the devmon process will start
>>> polling the switch.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> Harald
>>>
>>> William Ottley schrieb:
>>>> Well we have a few 2600's, and an ASA5500 that I'd like to grab 
>>>> info from,
>>>> such as up time, bandwidth usage, etc....
>>>> I saw that there is a template for cisco ASA so I'm hoping its for 
>>>> that
>>>> machine.
>>>>
>>>> I'm new at this, and just trying to figure out what "switches" I 
>>>> have to put
>>>> into the bb-hosts files...
>>>>
>>>> (still haven't figured out what area to change: bb-hosts or the client
>>>> config files)...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 19/03/09 9:38 AM, "McDonald, Dan" 
>>>> <Dan.McDonald at austinenergy.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 12:29 -0400, William Ottley wrote:
>>>>>> Is there a Cisco monitoring script that I could use?
>>>>> Although you will hear many calls for devmon, devmon does not 
>>>>> currently
>>>>> support snmp v3.  If that is a requirement for you, then I would
>>>>> recommend using mrtg with appropriate templates, and bbmrtg.pl to 
>>>>> report
>>>>> the values to xymon.  I use that technique to monitor 135 UPS, 94
>>>>> temperature/humidity probes, 19 firewalls, and close to 300 Cisco
>>>>> routers/switches.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
Hi,

I'm looking for some Cisco devmon templates 2950, 1240 and ASA5500.
Tks for any help



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