[Xymon] Issue with the hardware monitoring.

[Katragadda, Srinivas]

Thanks lot for your reply.

Our problem here is as follows. I will provide details steps for the same.

1. We are monitoring Windows 2003 servers using the Xymon monitoring. We were able to monitor everything. Except the Hardware monitoring of IBM boxes, which are consists of 10 different models. To have hardware monitoring in place, we have installed IBM Director Platform agent and configured the SNMP. And the Xymon collector is on linux platform. 

2. We have total of 340 servers

3. Among the 340 servers, very few of them work fine. But, remaining servers had problem of monitoring the hardware devices. 

4. We have checked the configuration of SNMP from the client side, it looks just fine. We have configured right community strings etc.

5. Despite of all this efforts, we were still not able to resolve the issue. 

Since hardware monitoring is very critical, Can you please help to throw some light of this issue. 

Your help is highly appreciated. 

Thanks and Regards,

Srinivas  | UGSI | Enterprise Computing Group |   EXT:7573087 -> Desk --> +91-80-40323087

e-mail: srinivas.katragadda at in.unisys.com

No Defeat is final, Untill you stop trying.

-----Original Message-----
From: kconnell at ryerson.ca [mailto:kconnell at ryerson.ca] 
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 7:40 PM
To: Katragadda, Srinivas; xymon-bounces at xymon.com; Xymon Email List
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Issue with the hardware monitoring.

As far as hosts are concerned, it doesn't mater what it is as long as it has some sort of snmp daemon or server running on it that answers snmp polls and that your community strings are correct and there is access.  

Xymon will be happy if a devmon template exists for the device being polled, then use details from that host template to get what you've asked for within the oid files. 

If no template is found, devmon won't poll for details and report back to xymon. It does not imply that snmp traffic or polls to the host don't work. 

Your xymon server is on a linux box I assume ?  Troubleshoot from there polling some hosts manually. If that's not doable, then find a snmp tool that works on windows that does snmpwalks or polls and have that on the same network as the xymon server. 

   
Ken Connell
Intermediate Network Engineer
Computer & Communication Services
Ryerson University
350 Victoria St
RM AB50
Toronto, Ont
M5B 2K3
416-979-5000 x6709


-----Original Message-----
From: "Katragadda, Srinivas" <Srinivas.Katragadda at in.unisys.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:33:07 
To: kconnell at ryerson.ca<kconnell at ryerson.ca>; xymon-bounces at xymon.com<xymon-bounces at xymon.com>; Xymon Email List<xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: RE: [Xymon] Issue with the hardware monitoring.

All these are Windows 2003 boxes. Can these be run on windows boxes?

Thanks and Regards,

Srinivas  | UGSI | Enerprise Computing Group |   EXT:7573087 -> Desk --> +91-80-40323087

e-mail: srinivas.katragadda at in.unisys.com

No Defeat is final, Untill you stop trying.


-----Original Message-----
From: kconnell at ryerson.ca [mailto:kconnell at ryerson.ca] 
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 6:59 PM
To: Katragadda, Srinivas; xymon-bounces at xymon.com; Xymon Email List
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Issue with the hardware monitoring.

Have you tried manually "snmpwalking" the hosts from your Xymon server ?

I'd first verify you can snmpwalk each device (or at least one of each type) from your server via shell doing:
snmpwalk <-v2c or -v1>  -c <comm string> host

If that's all good, then you probably just have devmon templates to tweak or make. 
 
   
Ken Connell
Intermediate Network Engineer
Computer & Communication Services
Ryerson University
350 Victoria St
RM AB50
Toronto, Ont
M5B 2K3
416-979-5000 x6709


-----Original Message-----
From: "Katragadda, Srinivas" <Srinivas.Katragadda at in.unisys.com>
Sender: xymon-bounces at xymon.com
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:45:21 
To: xymon at xymon.com<xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: [Xymon] Issue with the hardware monitoring.


We are monitoring about Windows 2003, 340+ servers using the Xymon. We have various models like of IBM,HP and DELL. 
We have installed the respective client packages like IBM Director, HP Insight and DELL Open Manage agents on the client side.
We have configured appropriate community strings.
Out of which very few of them we are able to get the status. Majority of the servers were not able to do the hardware monitoring. 

Checked the SNMP configuration at the client side several times, did not find any issue with it. 

We have opened all the required ports for this one. 

Can any of you help to get the light of this issue? 

Thanks and Regards,

Srinivas  | UGSI | Enterprise Computing Group |   EXT:7573087 -> Desk --> +91-80-40323087

e-mail: srinivas.katragadda at in.unisys.com

No Defeat is final, Untill you stop trying.


_______________________________________________
Xymon mailing list
Xymon at xymon.com
http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon