[hobbit] Monitoring Cisco routers

[Rich Smrcina]

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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Rich Smrcina
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