Cisco ACE Load Balancer

tsy · Post by **tsy** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:15 am

Because Cisco ACE and CSM modules are using differents OID (even if they are based on the same MIB!), I start to study Cisco SLB from an previous topic (http://forums.cacti.net/about12448.html), and here is a first working host template with related script and ressource.

Only serverfarm objects and CPU are concerned. Real servers will be more hard, and I didn't find memory yet.

ACE Version 3.0(0)A1(6.2a)
Cacti Version 0.8.7b

Any comment or other try are welcome

lerra · Post by **lerra** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:33 am

Nice one!

it · Post by it » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:34 pm

am no getting the virtual servers ?

i aready put the xml and php files in the appropriate folders, is there something i miss ?? can you plz provide the oids for those virtual servers in the cisco ace 4710??

how can i run the php script from the command line ??

when i run it it gives me :

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: read_config_option() in /usr/local/cacti/cacti-0.8.7b/lib/snmp.php on line 233

thx in advance

minuz71 · Post by **minuz71** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:11 am

Verbose Query of Data Query under Devices seems working correctly, resolving name of virtual servers, but when I create a graph, the name of the graph is not correct.
This is an example:
LB-SIMI-ACE-1-Inside_Application_Servers - |query_VirtualServer|

Seems that virtual server name is missing...and graphs are not displayed...
Any tips? I don't know if this is a problem of the template or of my cacti....

Version of ace is Version A2(1.2) [build 3.0(0)A2(1.2)]

I attached verbose query:

jagudo · Post by **jagudo** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:35 am

Seems like the same problem we have with the original SLB templates. I think that is a problem with the type of array that the template uses, but I can't fix it yet.

torstentfk · Post by **torstentfk** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:59 am

Hi,
importing into cacti 087a produces a "hash" error.
Do you have the data-query, data-template and graph-template as separat files? If I import the whole xml file I will blowup my interface -templates.

Torsten

Fiber-Optics · Post by **Fiber-Optics** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:05 am

Nice, I will be giving this a try. Since I have a enviroment that runs in multiple context mode with hundreds of different VIPS / ServerFarms.

Software
loader: Version 12.2[120]
system: Version A2(1.0) [build 3.0(0)A2(1.0)
system image file: [LCP] disk0:c6ace-t1k9-mz.A2_1.bin

jvp · Post by **jvp** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:13 am

I need a CPU Load Graph template for ACE Load Balancer.

Thanks

tsy · Post by **tsy** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:01 pm

Here is the CPU usage template (OID :.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.8.1)

tsy · Post by **tsy** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:04 pm

torstentfk wrote:Hi,
importing into cacti 087a produces a "hash" error.
Do you have the data-query, data-template and graph-template as separat files? If I import the whole xml file I will blowup my interface -templates.

Torsten

I had than a couple of time when I'm dealing with diffrent version.
You can hack easily files by changing manualy version, but take care about synthax : certain functions are changing (argument numbers...).

jvp · Post by **jvp** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:18 pm

Thanks tsy!

Crazyachmed · Post by **Crazyachmed** » Tue May 12, 2009 8:47 am

Nice plugin, finally I can graph my connections (I tried Cisco's ANM which is just....like any other Cisco managment software)

@tsy: I recommend that you raise the limit of current connections in the "NumberOfC" Data Source Item to something more reasonable like 25000 (or remove it completly). Unfortuatly I had to recreate all Graphs from scratch to apply this change.

Can it be that one run of the VServer Script collects both total and current connections? If so, then all data is gathered twice if you have a both graphs for a VServer...

canoas · Post by **canoas** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 7:36 am

I'm getting the following error when runnings (ss_slb_rserver.php) script for my Cisco CSM:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: read_config_option() in /opt/DKWcacti/htdocs/lib/snmp.php on line 233

Anyone know what to do here?

Below is line 233:

$retries = read_config_option("snmp_retries");

kevertje · Post by **kevertje** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:50 am

Anyone got a working ACE script (RSERVER connections) ?

Current connections:
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.470.1.1.3.1.14

Total connections:
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.470.1.1.3.1.11

Failed connections:
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.470.1.1.3.1.12

Dropped connections: (not working for me)
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.470.1.1.3.1.13

ascendo · Post by **ascendo** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:42 am

It's great to see someone create these templates as the ACE is very new. Unfortunately I cannot get graphs displayed.

I'm running 0.8.7d. I imported all the templates successfully, and the data query runs and picks up the single vserver in the context. I then created graphs direct from the device page (for both current and total connections).

However, graphs never display (rrd files do not get created), and all I get in the debug log output is this (repeated each poller cycle):

06/18/2009 06:38:04 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] Host[40] SNMP Result: Host responded to SNMP
06/18/2009 06:38:04 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] Host[40] RECACHE: Processing 2 items in the auto reindex cache for '192.168.32.8'
06/18/2009 06:38:04 PM - SPINE: Poller[0] Host[40] DEBUG: HOST COMPLETE: About to Exit Host Polling Thread Function

Any ideas?

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