[hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

[rdeal]

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 <rsmrcina at wi.rr.com>
> Reply-To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:08:00 -0600
> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
> 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" <mprice at hst.nasa.gov>
>>> Reply-To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
>>> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:01:33 -0500
>>> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
>>> 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:  240-684-1356
>>>             Cell:   410-507-7476
>>>             e-mail: mprice at hst.nasa.gov
>>> ----------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:39 AM
>>>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>>>> 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:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com]
>>>>>> Sent: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 15:06
>>>>>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>>>>>> 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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>>>>>     
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