[hobbit] Cisco monitoring?

[William Ottley]

Ahhh! Ok thanks for that bit of info!


On 19/03/09 11:15 AM, "Husemann, Harald" <Harald.Husemann at materna.de> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> hh
> 
> 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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