Re: [Devmon] Host with multiple snmp strings

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

On Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:47:12 kco...@ry... wrote:
> I currently monitor quite a few Nortel/Avaya 8600's via devmon but I've run
> into an interesting issue with polling in regards to VRFs.
> 
> The router/switch answers polls with "string1" and gives back info on the
> "default or global VRF"....so far so good..
> 
> If I use "string2"(which is set for the VRF), then I get back info from
> VRF2, and "string3" gives info on VRF3...and so on.
> 
> I've specified the tag:
> snmp:cid(string2)model(Nortel;custom)
> in the host file, and devmon says it has discovered it as I have specified,
> but because the host responds to string1 while running "devmon
> --readbbhosts", it continues to do the tests with string1 and gives me the
> output from VRF0 (global) instead of VRF2.
> 
> How am I suppose to "trick" devmon and poll with the other string ?

If you have set the cid option correctly on your 'DEVMON' tag, it shouldn't 
try any other community string you have configured.

However, you may have to specify the devic multiple times by different 
hostnames in the hosts.cfg or bb-hosts file.

(Of course, this really isn't convenient, devices playing tricks based on 
which community string you use is not a great data model).

Regards,
Buchan