Can anyone share some insite on getting cacti to graph a Redback SMS500. I cant get it to read any interfaces, or read from OID's...Thanks!
Brent
Redback
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Slainte
Redback response
Brent,
IMHO, Best way to get ANY new SNMP device working with any SNMP app, is to do a manual snmpget from the command line, or snmpwalk from the command line.
snmpget,
snmpwalk,
snmptranslate, should be your very very close friends when working with an app like cacti/cricket/mrtg.
Use snmptranslate to find the OID from the MIB,
Use snmpget to make sure your snmp system on teh redback is configured properly. (i.e. SNMP version, community string etc.)
Use snmpwalk to get a range of data, which you can scan through to see if it is what you are looking for.
Once you have the device responding from the command line, then try to add an extra layer of management ontop of it. Just like the OSI model, you should build your apps in the same way.
Just my two cents, change is always welcome.
Can you get the redback to respond to an snmpget from the command line? If not then you have fish to fry that are not native to the cacti ocean.
Cian
IMHO, Best way to get ANY new SNMP device working with any SNMP app, is to do a manual snmpget from the command line, or snmpwalk from the command line.
snmpget,
snmpwalk,
snmptranslate, should be your very very close friends when working with an app like cacti/cricket/mrtg.
Use snmptranslate to find the OID from the MIB,
Use snmpget to make sure your snmp system on teh redback is configured properly. (i.e. SNMP version, community string etc.)
Use snmpwalk to get a range of data, which you can scan through to see if it is what you are looking for.
Once you have the device responding from the command line, then try to add an extra layer of management ontop of it. Just like the OSI model, you should build your apps in the same way.
Just my two cents, change is always welcome.
Can you get the redback to respond to an snmpget from the command line? If not then you have fish to fry that are not native to the cacti ocean.
Cian
Redback
Redback has a network setup that I found really confusing; they like to have a routed connection at the "edge" of the network, before it hits your NMS platform. I never did manage to get SNMP across it without all kinds of gymnastics.
The TL/1 interface is not pretty, but it's usable. You can use the basic "show ..." commands and parse the output more or less the same way you'd pick apart any other script output.
Easiest thing to do is find a script you understand (there's a couple good ones for querying MySQL and such) and just put a couple of expect statements in there.
The TL/1 interface is not pretty, but it's usable. You can use the basic "show ..." commands and parse the output more or less the same way you'd pick apart any other script output.
Easiest thing to do is find a script you understand (there's a couple good ones for querying MySQL and such) and just put a couple of expect statements in there.
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