SonicWall templates ?

icetoad · Post by **icetoad** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:39 am

i am not sure what you are reffering to.. did you add the host or graphs to the graph tree via the graph trees area under management?

icetoad · Post by **icetoad** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:42 am

Also make sure the cacti owns the vpn script an all the directories under cacti.

I created a script which i run anytime i make changes which sets the permissions.

bigcitymike · Post by **bigcitymike** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:45 pm

icetoad wrote:i am not sure what you are reffering to.. did you add the host or graphs to the graph tree via the graph trees area under management?

If I go to Graphs ---> Tree Mode

i see two hosts, Localhost and sonicwall host. If i click on localhost it displays the associated graphs just fine.

If i click on the sonicwall host, nothing is there. i believe since the vpn script is not working quite right it's preventing it to be drawn here. I am absolutly sure i've created the graphs in the device section. They are all greyed out and cant be added.

Not to confuse things, but if i click on the preview tab (upper right: Graphs -> Preview Mode) I can choose hosts. Localhost or sonicwall. Here it DOES draw the graph, all i've selected to graph execpt the VPN

icetoad · Post by **icetoad** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:47 pm

Sounds like something is wrong with the template tree. I would remove and then readd the sonicwall to it as a host. if you have it added as a graph, it may have a link to an old graph that should be deleted under graph management.

bigcitymike · Post by **bigcitymike** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:01 pm

icetoad wrote:Sounds like something is wrong with the template tree. I would remove and then readd the sonicwall to it as a host. if you have it added as a graph, it may have a link to an old graph that should be deleted under graph management.

If i view it in graph mode it's ok. At this point for this host I'm about to give up. I can at least see the graphs (in graph mode), I wanted it to work in all modes. But I'm still a bit too green and banging my head isn't helping. Thanks for the effort in working on this with me. I want to move on and get data on the interfaces X0 - X5. So i can watch bandwith useage. That is really what got me looking in to Cact.

Any points on setting up graphs for that? lol

icetoad · Post by **icetoad** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 2:49 pm

unfortunately no.. other than find a good tool to track down the OIDs you need for each interface. I have been playing with printer pages and i cant move on to anything else till i get that right.

I would love to graph those stats though.. let me know if you get a working graph.

SysWiz · Post by **SysWiz** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:54 pm

Thank you all. I finally got it working for the most part. I have one question, though. When using the graph type "Sonicwall VPN Traffic (bits/sec, Total Bandwidth)" it looks like some of the info is truncated in the graph - specifically the "Total In:" value is missing. Here's a screen shot. It also looks like the spacing is a little messed up. Can anyone help? Thanks! -Scott

icetoad · Post by **icetoad** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:59 pm

you could edit the graph template and add a hard return after maximum or you could increase the width of the graph. Both of these options are in the graph templates section under the sonicwall vpn template.

SysWiz · Post by **SysWiz** » Mon Nov 13, 2006 3:33 pm

That was it. I added a hard return and widened the graphs to 600. Thank you!!!

marco114 · Post by **marco114** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:12 pm

Is it possible to graph traffic on various ports of the SonicWall?

I do co-location for customers and I like to graph their traffic. i could do it my monitoring their server directly, but i'd rather not be intrusive into their server.

icetoad · Post by **icetoad** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:40 am

I use this: http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

because i cant find the OIDs i need.

bdearlove · Post by **bdearlove** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:01 pm

Sorry if I sound like a N00b. Have a question. I have everything working great, but the 1 part I didn't know what to answer:

3. When creating graphs you will be prompted to enter a maximum value for decrypt/encrypt bytes. You MUST enter a value equal to the fast connection of any of the tunnels being monitored from this device. Otherwise you will see huge spikes every 8 hours.

What is fast connection? I have been noticing the spikes but do not know what to enter there,

Also, BigCityMike, it looks like you have the same issue as I did. Make sure you have Perl Installed, and Net-SNMP for Perl. The Windows Installer does not include it and I was running into the same issue until installed this.

wazoqaz · Post by **wazoqaz** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:26 am

bdearlove,

What is need is the maximum link speed in bytes/second. I would also recommend that you put some fudge factor in there particularly if you think you might be increasing the link speed at anytime. (For example we replaced a 786K DSL with a 3M connection).

The following formula should work, but I have not tried it (I just guessed).

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(Link speed in bits/second / 8) * (1 + "fudge factor")

For example for a T1 connection (1.5 Mb/s = 1572864 b/s) which we think will double some point the future with a 5% additional

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(1572864 / 8 ) * (1 + 1.05) = 403046

I hope this helps.

bdearlove · Post by **bdearlove** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:25 pm

Yeppers! That helped!

I still have a bit of wierdness where every hour my traffic peaks like crazy even with nothing going across....will havta track that mystery down....

Thanks for the help!

icetoad · Post by **icetoad** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:33 pm

Has anyone added a second VPN to be graphed after you initially setup these graphs?

I recently added a VPN and for some reason i cant find a way to graph it. I did a verbose query and it still only shows ONE found. Maybe i am missing something?

Thoughts?

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