Adtran Gear Template

[blunted1]

Cacti Forum Users,

I have used cacti in various environments over the past few years and have been very pleased with the results. I've found a need to monitor some of our legacy Adtran equipment, however no template currently exists.

I would like to create my own template for specific use with our Adtran gear. However, I don't know where I should start. Here is where I'm currently at:

1. SNMP is functioning on the Adtran device
2. I can query the MIB on the Adtran device using 'snmpwalk'

My question to everyone is; how to I go about creating my own template for our particular Adtran gear?

Can anyone point me in the right direction for documentation that steps you through creating your own template.

After I have my template working and tested, I will gladly post it to the forum for others to use.

Thanks,
blunted1

[blunted1]

I see that no one has replied yet, so I figured I'd post again with the current status of things:

1. cacti will walk the device and give me basic input/output data rates with all associated hardware by default.
2. cacti will not query the most important part of the MIB, for us at least, which are:

IF-MIB::ifInErrors.1 = Counter32: 0
IF-MIB::ifOutErrors.1 = Counter32: 0

What I need is a solution that will tell me graphically when an error occurs, be it inbound or outbound on the circuit.

How can I setup a graph to query the Adtran device and poll the above OIDs?

Thanks,
blunted1

[neovox]

Have you had any luck with your script?

I've just recently installed Cacti specifically for monitoring Cisco and Adtran networking gear. I had hoped to find scripts/templates for these that would make use of as much SMNP data as possible, but it doesn't seem that there is a lot available for the adtran gear. I'd be interested in what you're able to put together and will certinally post back once I get my feet wet with Cacti and see what I need to do to get it to report on this stuff.

M

[blunted1]

neovox,

I haven't had much luck with the Adtran gear either. It turns out that since the device is fed serially and outputs serially, it doesn't keep SNMP data on the traffic.

So as far as cacti is concerned, you can't sample any useful data to graph. The only thing I've successfully monitored is the SmartShelf 16e controller, which isn't worth much.

The key SNMP OID that we're using in a perl script is:

ifAdminStatus

It gives us the ability to poll the device and determine if an alarm has been triggered. Then it bounces us an email as to which shelf and slot the alarm exists on. 1=up, 2=down.

HTH.

Peace,
blunted1