Re: [Devmon] DEVMON questions

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 18:23:24 Jeffrey Parker wrote:
> 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.)?

At present, I do it via the DEVMON tag in the bb-hosts file

>                 2. How do I create new templates for routers that I
> don't have templates for?

Start off with cp -a $similar_template $new_template

Have a MIB browser (or the MIB) and snmpwalk output on one screen ...

> 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?

regex match on the Sysdescr OID to the sysdesc value in the specs file.

> Where is that information kept in the template?