End Device Tracking Add-On for Cacti

williem · Post by **williem** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:46 am

Larry,

We have a lot of Cisco 6513 and Cisco 6509 switches.

I have a primary switch that is my last hop before the WAN. I have 6509 closet switches that are L3 gig connected to the agg switch.

I have them all defined as switch/router in the devices table. It is scanning and reporting that I have mac addresses and IP addresses for each device but I get nothing on the reports.

I know that I must have something set up wrong but I am not sure where to look.

Regards,

Willie

cigamit · Post by **cigamit** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:28 am

williem wrote:Larry,

We have a lot of Cisco 6513 and Cisco 6509 switches.

I have a primary switch that is my last hop before the WAN. I have 6509 closet switches that are L3 gig connected to the agg switch.

I have them all defined as switch/router in the devices table. It is scanning and reporting that I have mac addresses and IP addresses for each device but I get nothing on the reports.

I know that I must have something set up wrong but I am not sure where to look.

Regards,

Willie

Just to be sure, are you selecting a Site Name on the Viewing page? Its doesn't display anything without selecting it.

knobdy · Post by **knobdy** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:58 am

cigamit - any thougths on my polling problem?

And as an off-topic question, do you have some info on how to use ntop WITH cacti on the same box? I know you have your CD but I don't currently have a box to use that with...

williem · Post by **williem** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:01 pm

Yes,

I am selecting a site from the drop down list. The cabeltron equipment is showing up. the cisco is giving me the summary info on the console/devices menu but not any of the macs in the mactrack tab.

BTW, love the plugin architecture!!!

Regards,

Willie

nuinco · Post by **nuinco** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:07 pm

Hi, went out and downloaded the .Zip file from cactiusers.org, ver 0.1b. When I over wrote the files in the "mac_track" directory the tab in Cacti disappeared as well as all menu options. If I switch back to the previous files it comes back. I need to update the files to get the HP devices.

I am on Cacti 0.8.6h and the newest .9 plugin arch and I ran the "database_upgrade.php", this returned a series of 1's.

Any idea what is happening.

Thanks

knobdy · Post by **knobdy** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:21 pm

nuinco wrote:Hi, went out and downloaded the .Zip file from cactiusers.org, ver 0.1b. When I over wrote the files in the "mac_track" directory the tab in Cacti disappeared as well as all menu options. If I switch back to the previous files it comes back. I need to update the files to get the HP devices.

Did you change the name of the directory from mac_track to mactrack? Verify it's like that for the plugin array as well.

This was covered several pages back, with me asking the same question.

nuinco · Post by **nuinco** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:29 pm

Sorry, I missed that one. That did it.

This thread has gotten qite large.

Thanks

nuinco · Post by **nuinco** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:03 pm

Woo Hoo,
It works great on my HP switches so far.

vedd99 · Post by **vedd99** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:26 pm

knobdy wrote:cigamit - any thougths on my polling problem?

And as an off-topic question, do you have some info on how to use ntop WITH cacti on the same box? I know you have your CD but I don't currently have a box to use that with...

I seem to be having the same polling problem, but it didnt seem to occur until I added devices into a separate site. Are you starting your poller job manually for the time being and if so what is the syntax?

vedd99 · Post by **vedd99** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:42 pm

vedd99 wrote:
knobdy wrote:cigamit - any thougths on my polling problem?

And as an off-topic question, do you have some info on how to use ntop WITH cacti on the same box? I know you have your CD but I don't currently have a box to use that with...

I seem to be having the same polling problem, but it didnt seem to occur until I added devices into a separate site. Are you starting your poller job manually for the time being and if so what is the syntax?

Just an update -- I set the poller time under system settings AHEAD of the current time and it kicked off like normal. Instead of using 12:05 AM or something change it to 5 mins ahead of what time it is now and see if it will kick off (and continue to do so).

molbech · Post by **molbech** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:49 pm

Hi

I was wondering - if's possible to turn the association around - so that a site is assoicate with devices- instead of devices assoicated to site.

My point is that a router could be router for more than one site. So the router has to be a member of more than one site.

Maybe i'm doing it wrong

Regards

/M

knobdy · Post by **knobdy** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:35 pm

vedd99 wrote:Just an update -- I set the poller time under system settings AHEAD of the current time and it kicked off like normal. Instead of using 12:05 AM or something change it to 5 mins ahead of what time it is now and see if it will kick off (and continue to do so).

Did it kick off again at the appropriate time (next interval)?

knobdy · Post by **knobdy** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:37 pm

molbech wrote:My point is that a router could be router for more than one site. So the router has to be a member of more than one site.

Maybe i'm doing it wrong

What are you calling a site, could be that you just need to expand your definition. In my case I have a building site, an ecom site (since it's all on its own switch and MSFC) and a couple remote building sites. True, I'm not getting much back from any of them, but that doesn't appear to be a result of router additions/omissions.

Post by **TheWitness** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:09 pm

I will likely be online Friday evening EST. I am not online at the moment. As fare as the max-repeater "-Ccr50". YOU NEED TO REMOVE THE STATEMENT ENTIRELY. I belive that the 4006 Agent does not process the max-repeaters portion of the inbound snmp request.

When I removed the max-repeater section entirely, I got data predictably.

TheWitness

vedd99 · Post by **vedd99** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:15 pm

knobdy wrote:
vedd99 wrote:Just an update -- I set the poller time under system settings AHEAD of the current time and it kicked off like normal. Instead of using 12:05 AM or something change it to 5 mins ahead of what time it is now and see if it will kick off (and continue to do so).
Did it kick off again at the appropriate time (next interval)?

It's been running for several hours now (on the hour) with no problem. It only seems to have problems with I change alot of the devices, or do alot of adds, deletes, etc.

Not sure what the exact cause of it could be, but setting it ahead so it "starts" at a time that is ahead (different from where it is hung up) seems to fix it for me.

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