[hobbit] Cisco switches

Lars Ebeling lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org
Wed Jan 16 16:53:44 CET 2008


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrik Stoerner" <henrik at hswn.dk>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Cisco switches


>
> The current snapshot of Hobbit can fetch data through SNMP, and one of
> the things I am using it for is to collect data about switches. We use
> Nortel's Passport-8600 switches here, but it can be configured for any
> kind of SNMP-enabled host. So just picking up the current load of the
> switch (cpu, memory, fabric utilisation) and the traffic on each port
> is done with this config entry in hobbit-snmphosts.cfg:
>
> [pp8600.foo.com]
>         version=2
> community=public
> p8600system
> ifmib=!*!
>
> "p8600system" and "ifmib" are actually pointers into hobbit-snmpmibs.cfg
> which has the details of what SNMP objects to retrieve (just showing a
> couple of items):
>
> [p8600system]
> Descr = SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0
> UpTime = RFC1213-MIB::sysUpTime.0
> BufferUtil = RAPID-CITY::rcSysBufferUtil.0 /rrd:GAUGE
> CpuUtil = RAPID-CITY::rcSysCpuUtil.0 /rrd:GAUGE
>
> [ifmib]
> keyidx (IF-MIB::ifDescr)
> keyidx !IF-MIB::ifIndex!
> ifHCInOctets = IF-MIB::ifHCInOctets /rrd:COUNTER
> ifHCOutOctets = IF-MIB::ifHCOutOctets /rrd:COUNTER
>

Are those two configurationfiles replacements for hobbit_snmpcollect.cfg?

> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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Regards
Lars Ebeling

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