Nortel Baystack/Passport?

scroger2 · Post by **scroger2** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:38 am

Greetings everyone,

I apologize for this blanket request, but ....

I am new to monitoring and newer to Cacti, which I totally love. Are there any Nortel users out there that might be interested in sharing templates and/or scripts that I might not be even aware of? I am looking primarily at items specifically for traffic/bandwith/utilization/etc for the Passport 8600,8300,1600, and Baystack470.

Thank you
Roger (uber newbie)

warnesj · Post by **warnesj** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:28 pm

We run some Nortel switches, Baystack 450's, 470's, 420's, BPS 2000's, 5510's, 5520's and PP8600's too. We just used the standard Cacti Interface that came with the "Generic SNMP-enabled Host" template without any problems. I did write some custom stuff for the 8600 though to get the CPU & backplane utilization and temperature. I don't have those exported into templates though but I'll export them tommorow and post them for ya if you're interested.

One thing to also note is that for any gigabit port, make sure your use the 64-bit counters (it's an option when you're creating your graphs for each interface) otherwise you may not get acurate traffic stats.

scroger2 · Post by **scroger2** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:35 am

That would be incredible. I am always interested to see what sites are doing with equipment similiar to mine. There are so many great things out there and I have but itched the surface.

I would have never thought about the 64-bit counter for the gig ports and that for certain would have bit me.

Please post here or directly with the contact info attached.
Thank you so very much.

Howie · Post by **Howie** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:53 am

scroger2 wrote:Greetings everyone,

I apologize for this blanket request, but ....

I am new to monitoring and newer to Cacti, which I totally love. Are there any Nortel users out there that might be interested in sharing templates and/or scripts that I might not be even aware of? I am looking primarily at items specifically for traffic/bandwith/utilization/etc for the Passport 8600,8300,1600, and Baystack470.

Thank you
Roger (uber newbie)

We use BS450s, BPS2000s and at one time used Passport 1200s (when they were Accelars). They all work as simple SNMP Hosts for per-port throughput.

As for more specialised stuff, you need to know to search for SNMP Enterprise MIBs from the people who Nortel bought in each case - Rapid City for Accelar (maybe Passport?), Wellfleet for some 'Bay' stuff like BLN/BCN/ASN routers , Bay Networks for others, Alteon for the Alteon range. I've found very little Nortel kit actually has a Nortel MIB

Code: Select all

snmpget -v 1 -c public 192.168.1.3 SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0

should let you know the enterprise.

Once you know which it is, then mibdepot.com will tell you what things can be measured.

warnesj · Post by **warnesj** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:47 am

I've attached the templates for the Nortel Passport 8600 I'm using to graph,

CPU Utilization
Buffer Utilization
Switch Fabric Utilization
Temperature

NOTE:The temperature is in degrees Celsius.

Ther are probably other things that the 8600 (or the other devices) offer for information, but those were the ones I was interested in.

All you need to do is import all the data and graph templates and then select the device in your Cacti console. Then in the "Associated Graph Templates" section just add the new graph templates. Cacti should autocreate the required data sources. The graphs may not show up right away, you'll need to wait for Cacti to poll the devices.

mikefrank1098 · Post by **mikefrank1098** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:40 am

Please see my post http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=15787

MikeP · Post by **MikeP** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:18 pm

I am trying to import these templates and I ge the error "Error: XML: Hash version does not exist", any ideas? I am running Cacti V0.8.6g.

Thanks,

Mike P

warnesj · Post by **warnesj** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:34 pm

My templates were exported from Cacti 0.8.6h, so that's the problem. You'll need to upgrade to the latest Cacti. Sorry man.

duongchu · Post by **duongchu** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:29 pm

warnesj: do you know similar oid's for Nortel baystack 5510?

warnesj · Post by **warnesj** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:01 pm

duongchu wrote:warnesj: do you know similar oid's for Nortel baystack 5510?

Not yet, sorry. I haven't really dug into MIB's for the 5510 or the 5520 yet. I have a few in my network so I'll see if I can get some time to put something together for the 5510 and 5520.

moe_szyslak · Post by **moe_szyslak** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:08 am

Has anyone experience with the memory monitoring of a 8600 ? I got only 0% utilization at my queries.

after310 · Post by **after310** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:32 am

Hi

This thread interest me!

I'm searching OID to get CPU load and RAM free and temperatures on a Nortel 425 and 5520.

I can't find these informations

after310 · Post by **after310** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 10:11 am

moe_szyslak wrote:Has anyone experience with the memory monitoring of a 8600 ? I got only 0% utilization at my queries.

I have the same results on my PP8610, but sometimes i have 1, 2 or 3% of use

But according to my colleague, 0-3% is not funny.

after310 · Post by **after310** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:30 am

Maher457 · Post by **Maher457** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:26 am

does any one have the graph templates for nortel 5510?

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