Re: [Devmon] DEVMON questions

[Joshua K. <fo...@tr...>]

To answer your questions:

1.  Let's say we are talking about a 6509 and the template is cisco-6509.
What I do is copy the cisco-6509 to cisco-6509a.  I then modify the specs
file in the template and put a bogus "sysdesc" and modify the device to
match 6509a.  The issue with doing this way is that you have to add an entry
in the bb-hosts file for that hosts that forces it to use the cisco-6509a
template.

2.  The template instructions seem to be fairly straight forward to me.  But
you create yourself a folder with the model-device.  So for your cisco 12000
series you could create a folder called cisco-12k.  Now you need to create a
specs file for your template, this is what Devmon uses to know what type of
device your host is.  Your specs file would maybe look like this:

vendor  : cisco
model   : 12k
snmpver : 2
sysdesc : c6sup|s72033_rp|s222_rp

The sysdesc field is probably going to be a little different.  To find out
what yours would be do.

Snmpwalk -v 2c -c <community string> device-name sysdesc

Here is what my output shows me:

SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Cisco Internetwork Operating System
Software
IOS (tm) s72033_rp Software (s72033_rp-IPSERVICESK9_WAN-M), Version
12.2(18)SXF7, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2006 by cisco Systems, Inc.

Once you see the output you can pick one or multiple entries separated by a
pipe symbol that show up in your output.
Now within your templates folder you will create a folder for each test that
you want to monitor.  Examples would be cpu, if_load, memory.....etc.  Now
each of the test folders require 5 different files:

exceptions
message
oids
thresholds
transforms

I think from this point you should be able to read the documentation and use
the other templates as examples of what you need.


-Josh




-----Original Message-----
From: dev...@li...
[mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Jeffrey
Parker
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:23 PM
To: dev...@li...
Subject: [Devmon] DEVMON questions

Hello,

        I have been using DevMon for a while now to monitor my Cisco
routers under Hobbit.  I guess I'm being dense, but there are a few
things I can't figure out:

                1. If you have multiple routers of the same type that
you already have templates for, how do you differentiate them if they
require different monitoring parameters (exclusions, etc.)?

                2. How do I create new templates for routers that I
don't have templates for?  I know there are instructions, but it's not
clear to me how to create them so it knows that when I start
monitoring a new
                    type (Cisco 12000 series for example), how does
DevMon know that when the device is queried, that this device is
indeed a 12000 Cisco?  Where is that information kept in the template?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff



-- 
Jeff Parker
jwprkr at gmail dot com

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