[hobbit] Cisco monitoring?

[Husemann, Harald]

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.

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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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
> 
> 

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