Re: [Devmon] Initial Configuration

[<mv...@so...>]

Apologies, I have one other question... 

How can I tell which template is been used on a device?  What I mean is if I 
have a CISCO 2950, how do I tell if the template cisco-2900 is been used for 
it or the cisco-2950 template? 


Thanks, 


mv...@so... writes: 

> Hi there,  
> 
> Firstly, is there an 'archive' available of previous postings for Devmon?
> I've read through the documentation and done some searching online, but 
> although it pretty much working as expected, I have some niggling initial 
> questions I haven't been able to solve..  
> 
> 
> I'm busy implementing and testing Devmon version 0.3.1-beta1, with the 
> templates from 20080206.  XYMON version 4.3.0.0-beta2.  
> 
> My test hardware is a CISCO 2950 switch, CISCO 850 and CISCO 871 
> firewalls.  
> 
> 1) The CISCO 2950 default template works fine, except that the if_load 
> graphs do not display in xymon.  The memory and CPU are fine.
> if_load.<int>.rrd files are created under my ~xymon/data/rrd directory.
> I've attached a screenshot of what I see.  
> 
> 2) I've used the exceptions file for the cisco-2950 template to ignore 
> interfaces that have no systems connected (rather than report red "down"). 
> Is this the best way to do this or is their a dymanic way of ignoring 
> these interfaces?  
> 
> 3) (may sound like a weird question...)
> When trying to create a template for the CISCO 850 or 870, I created the 
> directory, then a specs file and ran ~devmon/devmon --readbbhosts.  I kept 
> receiving the error:
> "No matching templates for device: <hostname>"  
> 
> But then, after copying the directories and files from cisco-asa and 
> updating the specs file accordingly (same as the test specs I was using 
> previously), it worked.  
> 
> Does there need to be any minimum number of tests before the templates 
> will match?  I'm sure I didn't have a typo in my original specs file.  
> 
> 
> Thanks,