Re: [hobbit] Devmon device support, Cross post between lists

["Robert Holden" <robertholden (at) gmail.com>]

I have noticed quite a bit of (unnecessary) redundancy when it comes to the
cisco templates.  I have been able to reduce nearly all the cisco devices
down to two templates:  cisco-switch and cisco-common
I still have a few minor issues to deal with, but should have something to
post to the group in about a weeks time.  The biggest of these issues is
finding something in the specs "model" that is common to the cisco-switch
(2811, 4003, 5500, & 6506), that is not found in all the other devices.
Simularily, I would like to find something in the specs "model" that is
common to all other cisco devices (cisco-common).

note: Many switches are still able to use cisco-common (2900, 3500, 3550,
etc), so I probably have to come up with a better name for cisco-switch.

I will see what I can find on your subinterfaces issue.

I am also working on an idea (change to devmon) to allow for "default"
templates depending on vendor.

Robert Holden


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Chris Wopat <chrisw (at) supranet.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Chiming in on some info on Devmon. While primarily targeted to the Devmon
> list, it may be useful to hobbit/devmon users who don't subscribe to that
> list.
>
> The cisco-7206 template works perfectly fine on a Cisco 7500. I'm sure it
> works on a 7200 as well. I also have an old 7000 here, but I don't want to
> boot it up to test. Anyway, it may be in the best interest to rename 7206 to
> 7200, and just copy its templates to a 7500 folder, or genericly rename the
> whole thing cisco-7000.
>
> Also, there is a typo in the USING doc:
>
>
> http://devmon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/devmon/trunk/docs/USING?revision=3&view=markup
>
> This line is listed:
>        DEVMON:tests(cpu),thresh(cpu;CPUTotal5Min;y=50;r=90)
>
> But it should be:
>        DEVMON:tests(cpu),thresh(cpu;CPUTotal5Min;y:50;r:90)
>
> It's correct in the details furter down the page, but the equal symbols
> should be colons near the top when it first mentions thresh().
>
> Lastly, and this is very minor, Devmon doesn't properly detect
> administratively down interfaces in all cases. On one router, I am using
> subinterfaces as follows:
>
> GigabitEthernet0/2
> GigabitEthernet0/2.1
> GigabitEthernet0/2.2
> GigabitEthernet0/2.3
> ..etc..
>
> If I shut down Gi0/2, 'sh ip int br' shows its subinterfaces
> administratively down, but devmon doesn't detect that- one has to go into
> each subinterface and shut them down as well. It does appear that the OID
> that checks admin status (.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.7) does indeed say up, which is
> why it's showing red:
>
> ifAdminStatus.89 = INTEGER: up(1)
>
> I couldnt find any alternate OID to report ifAdminStatus, so short of
> putting in code to check parent interface status, it probably couldn't be
> considered a bug, but I thought I'd mention it.
>
> --Chris
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