[Devmon] Initial Configuration

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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,
Mario