Re: [Devmon] sysdescr problem with f5 bigip template

[Aiello, S. (G. C. consultant) <ste...@ge...>]

I use a template I created myself, If you are using a template someone
else made ( I do not think I published mine), I am not sure I can help
you. Mine template is rather 'rough', not yet refined and polished, due
to lack of time. I used the following MIBs for reference on my template:
F5-BIGIP-COMMON-MIB.txt
F5-BIGIP-LOCAL-MIB.txt
F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB.txt

snmpwalk does not always return all data a device makes available via
SNMP.  I believe that snmpwalk only provides data on MIBs that are
installed on the device doing the query, when doing a global walk, i.e.
"snmpwalk -v2c -cpublic 10.5.4.3". This behavior is different when you
focus snmpwalk on a particular OID, i.e. "snmpwalk -v2c -cpublic
10.5.4.3 .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.2.5.1.2.1.1". So I normally browse the MIBs
to locate the OIDs I am interested in, then perform snmpwalks to look at
the data contained.

Hope I explained things clearly,
 ~Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...=20
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> Behalf Of Tom Georgoulias
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:38 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Devmon] sysdescr problem with f5 bigip template
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> Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant) wrote:
> > Yes I have. The newer bigIPs are based on a Linux OS, thus=20
> why you get a
> > Linux sysdescr return.  The work around I use is hardcoding=20
> which devmon
> > template to use via the BBTAG in the bb-hosts file, i.e.
> > DEVMON:model(f5;bigip).
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> Cool, good suggestion.  Right now I have the specs file hard=20
> coded, but=20
> if we were to buy and deploy a pair of these I'd use your method.
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> For those bipIPs, are the OIDs in the f5-bigip template still valid?=20
> I'm not getting any data at all for those, although I can do=20
> an snmpwalk=20
> of the bigip and get data for other stuff and I'm sure our sales=20
> engineer enabled snmp access for us.
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> Only asking this stuff so I don't spend the next couple of=20
> hours redoing=20
> something that doesn't need to be done...
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> Thanks,
> Tom
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> Tom Georgoulias
> Systems Engineer
> McClatchy Interactive
> to...@mc...
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