Re: [Devmon] 6509 problem.

[Johann E. <joh...@te...>]

Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:

>Hrm.  This could be a different problem that the one Thomas was
>reporting.
>
>You are running CatOS instead of IOS;  the template was
>made for a 6509 running in routing mode (with an RSM and SUP card).
>We don't have any 6509s running CatOS, so I'm not going to be 
>able to troubleshoot very much.  W
>
>hat I can tell you is that, while CatOS uses a different MIB that 
>IOS, the templates use mostly generic OIDs that any sane l2 device 
>should respond to (a few exceptions being the fan & psu state oids, as 
>well as the collision counter, all of which are cisco IOS specific).
>
>I'd try copying the cisco-6509 directory to something like
>"cisco-6509sw",
>and changing the sysdesc field in the spec file to 'C6509' or somesuch.
>Then run the template against your 6509 and see what fails, and either
>change or remove it from the template.
>
>-Eric
>  
>
I had the same problem with our cisco-6506.
I changed the spec to:

vendor	: cisco
model	: 6506
snmpver	: 2
sysdesc : C6506

and it works ...

Johann