[hobbit] devmon help

Fri Sep 15 17:59:31 CEST 2006

Ok, how do I run devmon in daemon mode to capture the data?  When I run
devmon with no options it runs for about 15 seconds then finishes?

Thanks

Trent Melcher 
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator 
Securities America Financial Corporation 
(402) 399-9111 x2774 
tmelcher at saionline.com 
Securities America, Inc., a Registered Broker/Dealer, Member NASD/SIPC.
Advisory services offered through Securities America Advisors, Inc., an
SEC Registered Investment Advisory

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jones, Jason (Altrincham) [mailto:JasonAS_Jones at mentor.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:18 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] devmon help
> 
> Related to this would anyone be willing to send me any cisco, hp/dell
> (printer) oids they know work?
> 
> But as for helping as Johann said you add a DEVMON tag to the 
> bb-hosts for the switch etc you want tested (you can force using
> DEVMON:model(<vendor>;<model>) ) after you have done this you 
> run devmon --readbbhosts and it will search through for 
> usable tests it can run and report any entries that do not 
> have matching templates, you can also look in 
> /var/logs/devmon.log for useful output messages
> 
> Any templates you create must follow this structure
> 
> DIR:name (best to use vendor-model)
>   |
>   |--specs (must contain vendor, model, snmpver and sysDesc)
>   |--DIR:test (this will be the name reported to hobbit)
>          |
>          |-- oids (contains oids and handles you assign
> 	   |-- message (message format reported to hobbit)
>          |-- thresholds(when to generate status changes and 
> messages to
> use)
>          |-- transforms (data manipulation)
>          |-- exceptions (what is sounds like)
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johann Eggers [mailto:Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com]
> Sent: 15 September 2006 16:07
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] devmon help
> 
> A little correction:
> 
> Which device to query is determined by entries in the bb-hosts file.
> 
> You need the templates to specify what OID's to query, how to 
> calculate/handle the output, define thresholds, generating 
> the message...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johann Eggers [mailto:Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com]
> Sent: Freitag, 15. September 2006 16:27
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] devmon help
> 
> We are currently monitor Cisco 6506, Cisco 4003, Cisco 1700 
> and Netapp boxes with devmon.
> 
> You have to create a template for the devices named by the 
> model in the System Description of the snmp output. By this 
> way the devmon daemon is able to determine what devices to 
> query. You can use existing templates as a basis and change 
> them to fit to your needs
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trent Melcher [mailto:tmelcher at saionline.com]
> Sent: Freitag, 15. September 2006 16:05
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] devmon help
> 
> Craig 
> 
> Run strings against the hosts.db and you will see better 
> output.  I too have been trying to setup devmon and cant get 
> it working either,  having same problems as you.  Run devmon 
> with the --readbbhosts option, I even used the -vv to see 
> some info, it identifies the switch correctly and looks like 
> its using the right template, but no output or anything in 
> the log file.
> 
> Anyone else have this working?
> 
> Trent Melcher
> Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
> Securities America Financial Corporation
> (402) 399-9111 x2774
> tmelcher at saionline.com
> Securities America, Inc., a Registered Broker/Dealer, Member 
> NASD/SIPC.
> Advisory services offered through Securities America 
> Advisors, Inc., an SEC Registered Investment Advisory
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig Cook [mailto:craig at cookitservices.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:25 PM
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > Subject: [hobbit] devmon help
> > 
> > I have a cisco 3550 switch I am trying to use devmon with.  
> > SNMP is enabled in the switch, but devmon does not seem to 
> do anything 
> > with it.
> > 
> > The templates dir has cisco-3500 listed as a device it 
> knows about...
> > 
> > Single devmon server.
> > 
> > solaris1:/usr/local/devmon#  /usr/local/devmon/devmon --readbbhosts 
> > [06-09-14 at 13:01:46] Saw 5 vendors, 19 models,
> > 19 sysdescs & 57 templates [06-09-14 at 13:01:46] SNMP 
> querying all hosts 
> > in bb-hosts file, please wait...
> > [06-09-14 at 13:01:46] Querying new hosts using cid 'public' 
> and snmp v2 
> > [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] DEBUG SNMP: Dethawing data for 
> switch1.example.com 
> > [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com sysdesc = ::: Cisco 
> > Internetwork Operating System Software IOS (tm) C3550 Software 
> > (C3550-I5Q3L2-M), Version 12.1(22)EA1a, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) 
> > Copyright (c) 1986-2004 by cisco Systems, Inc.
> > Compiled Fri 20-Aug-04 00:44 by yenanh :::
> > [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com did not match 
> powerware : 9170 
> > : BestLink [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com did not 
> match apc : 
> > 9609 : MN: AP9606 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com did not 
> > match apc :
> > 9205 : Mod: AP9205 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com did not 
> > match apc : 9619 : MN:AP9619 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] 
> switch1.example.com 
> > did not match cisco : 1700 : C1700 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] 
> > switch1.example.com did not match cisco :
> > 2970 : C2970 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] switch1.example.com did not match 
> > cisco : 3725 : C3725 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] 
> switch1.example.com did not 
> > match cisco : 2900 : C2900 [06-09-14 at 13:01:47] Discovered 
> > switch1.example.com as a cisco 3550 solaris1:/usr/local/devmon#  
> > /usr/local/devmon/devmon --readbbhosts [06-09-14 at 13:02:11] Saw 5 
> > vendors, 19 models,
> > 19 sysdescs & 57 templates [06-09-14 at 13:02:11] SNMP 
> querying all hosts 
> > in bb-hosts file, please wait...
> > [06-09-14 at 13:02:11] Querying pre-existing hosts [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] 
> > DEBUG SNMP: Dethawing data for switch1.example.com 
> [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] 
> > switch1.example.com sysdesc = ::: Cisco Internetwork 
> Operating System 
> > Software IOS (tm) C3550 Software (C3550-I5Q3L2-M), Version 
> > 12.1(22)EA1a, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 
> 1986-2004 by cisco 
> > Systems, Inc.
> > Compiled Fri 20-Aug-04 00:44 by yenanh :::
> > [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] switch1.example.com did not match 
> powerware : 9170 
> > : BestLink [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] switch1.example.com did not 
> match apc : 
> > 9609 : MN: AP9606 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] switch1.example.com did not 
> > match apc :
> > 9205 : Mod: AP9205 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] switch1.example.com did not 
> > match apc : 9619 : MN:AP9619 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] 
> switch1.example.com 
> > did not match cisco : 1700 : C1700 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] 
> > switch1.example.com did not match cisco :
> > 2970 : C2970 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] switch1.example.com did not match 
> > cisco : 3725 : C3725 [06-09-14 at 13:02:12] 
> switch1.example.com did not 
> > match cisco : 2900 : C2900
> > 
> > I changed this in dm_config.pm
> > 
> >       'verbose'       => 1,
> >       'debug'         => 1,
> >       'print_msg'     => 1,
> > 
> > 
> > # vi hosts.db
> > switch1.example.com^[192.168.1.2^[cisco^[3550^[all^[public^[^[
> > 
> > Are the "^["'s messing this up?
> > 
> > Nothing in the devmon log file...
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Craig Cook
> > --
> > Systems Monitoring Consulting and Support Services 
> > http://www.cookitservices.com
> > 
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