[hobbit] Cisco monitoring?

William Ottley wottley at cmicanada.com
Thu Mar 19 15:37:58 CET 2009


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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