Cisco interface operational status monitor

[Xof]

In fact, according to lib/snmp.php, it seems that cacti first tries to use the snmp module of php instead of snmp binaries provided by ucd snmp or net snmp.

So a solution is to prevent php to load the snmp extension module.

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On Fedora Core6, update /etc/php.d/snmp.ini:
replace 
   extension=snmp.so
by 
   ;extension=snmp.so

At least for net snmp there is one specific option which removes the symbolic labels from enumeration values (see man snmpcmd). I have cheched the lib/snmp.php script and snmpwalk is executed with this needed option.

Now graphes are created with correct values.

[yeled]

i found that with net-snmp, the trick is to replace the regexp in lib/snmp.php

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define("REGEXP_SNMP_TRIM", "(hex|counter(32|64)|gauge|gauge(32|64)|float|ipaddress|string|integer):");

with this

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define("REGEXP_SNMP_TRIM", "(hex|counter(32|64)|gauge|gauge(32|64)|float|ipaddress|string|integer):|(up|down)\(|\)$");

[yeled]

i found that with net-snmp, the trick is to replace the regexp in lib/snmp.php

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define("REGEXP_SNMP_TRIM", "(hex|counter(32|64)|gauge|gauge(32|64)|float|ipaddress|string|integer):");

with this

define("REGEXP_SNMP_TRIM", "(hex|counter(32|64)|gauge|gauge(32|64)|float|ipaddress|string|integer):|(up|down)\(|\)$");

[yeled]

i found that with net-snmp, the trick is to replace the regexp in lib/snmp.php

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define("REGEXP_SNMP_TRIM", "(hex|counter(32|64)|gauge|gauge(32|64)|float|ipaddress|string|integer):");

with this

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define("REGEXP_SNMP_TRIM", "(hex|counter(32|64)|gauge|gauge(32|64)|float|ipaddress|string|integer):|(up|down)\(|\)$");

[crackrocksteady]

This worked for me,

Thanks Yeled.

[smartech1]

Hi,

I configured as mentioned above after importing the templates.but I don't find "Interface status" template in Graph template drop down box. Instead i see only "interface-traffic" for the respective interface.

This is what debug says. FInd the attached screen shot.

Please suggest me further.

RRDTool Command:

/bin/rrdtool graph - \
--imgformat=PNG \
--start=-86400 \
--end=-300 \
--title="Ganesha_Router - Interface Status" \
--rigid \
--base=1000 \
--height=50 \
--width=500 \
--alt-autoscale-max \
--lower-limit=0 \
--vertical-label="status" \
--slope-mode \
AREA:#FFC73B:"Current status\:" \
GPRINT::LAST:"%8.2lf%s\n" \
COMMENT:"(1 = Up | 2 = Down)\n"

RRDTool Says:

ERROR: parameter '#FFC73B' does not represent a number in line AREA:#FFC73B:Current status\:

[bengelly]

Hi flipflap,

I am using your template to monitor my APs and it's veru useful...

I found out yesterday that the OID your are using could also be used to monitor the status of any interface (for example the status of an ethernet port on a switch...)... could you be kind enough to modify your template in order to do this ?

Thanks a lot !!!

[Gangstamc]

OK I am wondering is it possible to integrate this with my traffic flow graph. I would like to have it so that the graph is shaded when the interface is up and graphs the input and output flow rate and then leaves a blank spot on the graph to show when the interface is down.

[Howie]

I've been trying to get this working for a weathermap today. I have modified the interface.xml so that opStatus is an output, added the VALUE/REGEXP suggested here, modified lib/snmp.php as suggested by yeled, disabled the php-snmp module, and still I get a 'U' rather than a real result. snmpwalk shows the normal "up(1)" result.

I have a graph template and data template that seem to work OK, and new data sources are created, and polled, as expected. I just don't get useful data out of interface.xml... is there anything else to check? The DEBUG mode log lines just say:

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03/19/2007 03:20:08 PM - CACTID: Poller[0] Host[156] DS[2693] WARNING: Result from SNMP not valid. Partial Result: ...
03/19/2007 03:20:08 PM - CACTID: Poller[0] Host[156] DS[2693] SNMP: v2: 10.225.6.12, dsname: op_status, oid: .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.8.10101, value: U
03/19/2007 03:20:08 PM - CACTID: Poller[0] Host[156] DS[2694] WARNING: Result from SNMP not valid. Partial Result: ...
03/19/2007 03:20:08 PM - CACTID: Poller[0] Host[156] DS[2694] SNMP: v2: 10.225.6.12, dsname: op_status, oid: .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.8.10115, value: U

It's a Cisco 3650G, in case it's relevant, and:

Cacti Version - 0.8.6j
Plugin Architecture - 1.1
Poller Type - Cactid v0.8.6i
Server Info - FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
Web Server - Apache/2.0.59 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.2.1 with Suhosin-Patch
PHP - 5.2.1
PHP Extensions - session, Reflection, date, libxml, apache2handler, pdf, zlib, bz2, mcrypt, mbstring, xml, pcre, standard, openssl, mysql, gd, ctype
MySQL - 5.0.33-log
RRDTool - 1.2.19
SNMP - 5.3.1
Plugins

• PHP Network Weathermap (weathermap - v0.9pre1)
  Update Checker (update - v0.3)
  Poller Performance Report (pollperf - v0.2)
  Host Info (hostinfo - v0.1)

[gandalf]

Translating up(1) to 1 would require the snmpcmd option -e. But cacti does not set this option, AFAIK. You may try to change the code. Next approach would be to use a Script Data Query; but for only translating a single item, this semms a big overkill to me.
Reinhard

[schouaib]

are you using CMD ou cactid for polling, when I changed the poller to use CMD, it works fine. I think that it's a problem with cactid (I use cactid 0.8.6g)

[Howie]

are you using CMD ou cactid for polling, when I changed the poller to use CMD, it works fine. I think that it's a problem with cactid (I use cactid 0.8.6g)

I use cactid 0.8.6h (I think), but cmd.php isn't really an option for me...

[neovox]

Has any one been successful using this with cactid as opposed to with cmd.php?

Like some of the folks previous, I have made the changes indicated in the post but still get a result of 'U' instead of '1' when using cactid, which the system doesn't seem to be able to interpret. It does however work using the cmd.php poller.

I'm currently running Cacti 0.8.6i. I monitor mostly interface traffic on only 8 hosts, however one host, a Cisco 7613, has quite a few interfaces, so I end up with about 1700 DataSources and 861 RDDs. Poller time is usually between 70 & 100. I personally don't have a poller preference, but I was under the understanding that cactid is more efficient.

That said, Is there anyone successfully using this template with cactid? If not, is there any reason for me not to move to using cmd.php instead of cactid simply to address the issues I'm having with this template?

Thanks,

M

[fernandakp]

Hi.
I tried to import the tree templates. The two fisrt ones was OK, but the third one doesnt work out... when i tried to import this error appears:
Error: XML parse error.

Is this third template important to the correct function of this feature? Or it just update the interface.xml with the string "output" in the ifOperStatus tag ??

[djoki]

hello,

cacti_data_query_snmp_interface_statistics.xml must be in snmp_queries directory ?

thx