Re: [Devmon] sysdescr problem with f5 bigip template

[Schwimmer, E. E *H. <EE...@hs...>]

What Steve said :)  (note to self: read all the emails THEN start
replying).

-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: dev...@li...
[mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf Of
Aiello, Steve (GE, Corporate, consultant)
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 8:20 AM
To: dev...@li...
Subject: Re: [Devmon] sysdescr problem with f5 bigip template

Yes I have. The newer bigIPs are based on a Linux OS, thus why you get a
Linux sysdescr return.  The work around I use is hardcoding which devmon
template to use via the BBTAG in the bb-hosts file, i.e.
DEVMON:model(f5;bigip).

Hope this helps,
 ~Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...=20
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On=20
> Behalf Of Tom Georgoulias
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:37 AM
> To: devmon-support
> Subject: [Devmon] sysdescr problem with f5 bigip template
>=20
>=20
> We are evaluating a F5 BigIP 6800 and I was trying to monitor it with=20
> devmon and the default f5-bigip template set distributed in=20
> the tarball.=20
>   I knew something was amiss when the first column that=20
> showed up after=20
> I pointed devmon at the bigip  was called "raid", not "if_load".
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> Turns out the sysdescr string that the big ip returns looks like this:
>=20
> SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 =3D STRING: Linux hostname.example.com=20
> 2.4.21-9.1.2.37.0smp #2 SMP Tue Apr 25 15:38:38 PDT 2006 i686
>=20
> Having "Linux" in the string makes it match the compaq-server=20
> template,=20
> not the f5-bigip .  Has anyone else seen this?
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> Tom
> --=20
> Tom Georgoulias
> Systems Engineer
> McClatchy Interactive
> to...@mc...
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