How to setup netscreen?

[toddyp]

I already setup cacti, and its running well. But it seems could not recognise my Netscreen firewall. I enabled SNMP for pretty much default settings (public community and port 161) in the firewall.
Then added this as new device in cacti with IP address and 'Generic SNMP-enabled host'. Set the SNMP community as 'public', Version -> 'Version 1', SNMP Port -> '161', SNMP Timeout -> '500'.

Now, I can see the SNMP information on top of this device setup page (no SNMP error). But why the status in 'Device' page is 'Down'?

How to correctly set this device?

[gandalf]

What's you cacti version? Please change "Settings -> Downed Hos Detection " to SNMP only. Wait for at least 3-4 polling cycles and then check host status again
Reinhard

[toddyp]

ups, i guess i didn't give enough info, as i am new to this thing. I am using cacti-0.8.6h.

I am trying that now, and as you said, i'll return with the result after 5 polling.

[toddyp]

It works!
Thank you v. much!

... loving this cacti-gem.

ps. i just wondering, i can ping beautifully from this cacti machine to the netscreen, so why it must rely on SNMP only?

[fmangeant]

ps. i just wondering, i can ping beautifully from this cacti machine to the netscreen, so why it must rely on SNMP only?

Hi

by default Cacti uses UDP ping; if you want to use ICMP ping, the poller has to be run by 'root'.

[toddyp]

Thx for the info guru!