Re: [Devmon] MDS9000 fibre channel switch

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

On Wednesday, 21 October 2009 18:46:19 Peter Welter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In the past I've discovered a few times that CRC errors on our fibre
> channel switch caused us many harm. I installed devmon next to Xymon and I
> made a status-check with the documentation. All is working well, for the
> status check (online, location etc). So far so good.
>
> Now I want some real stuff to be monitored. The 20 fibre channel ports on
> the switch (CRC errors, underrun etc). I have access to this switch. I have
> access to the MIB description (
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/storage/san_switches/mds9000/sw/rel_2_x/fab
>ricware/mibs/reference/guide/alliance.html) but I am wondering...
> If I would like to monitor all 20 ports, do I have to create 20 subdirs
> with contents (oids, thresholds ) for each port? There mus be an easier
> approach, but then again: I'm fairly new to devmon.
>
> When I issue a snmpwalk-command, for example:
>
> $ snmpwalk -v2c -c public ip.address.masked.here 1.3.6.1.3.94.4.5.1.40
>
> It responds with 20 ports.
>
> How can I sample it all up to one oids-file (for example in the
> fc_error-directory) but have an table-like-output for each switchport.
>
> Any help is very much appreciated.

I have the beginning of a template for MDS9500 SAN directors, but so far only 
for interface load and CDP. Our MDS9506 SAN directors don't have the OID you 
use above (so, probably support an older version of this MIB). They are 
running m9500-sf1ek9-mz 3.2(3a),Compiled 1/10/2008.

However, you may want to start with that.

Our 9216i's (on m9200-ek9-mz Version 3.2(3a),Compiled 1/10/2008) behave the 
same as our MDS9506's, so while I will add a template for them too, it's not 
(yet) going to help you.

I am not sure if I will be able to get someone to upgrade these to a newer 
IOS.

Regards,
Buchan