Monitor and Apple Airport

[chaosboy]

The good people at Apple decided not to use standard MIBs in their Airport base stations. They have, however, released their custom MIBs, so it is possable to retreive the typical network interface info, but I have not been able to make Cacti retreive this info and graph it. Has anybody been able to do this? I've attempted to make a custom SNMP input for it, but I have not had much luck. Documentation in this area seems to either be lacking, or I'm not looking in the right place. Can anyone help?

[paulbeard206]

I have been graphing an older Graphite model for years: admittedly, the values you can access are limited to the interfaces -- no information on the number of clients connected -- but that's useful.

[grayman]

Ok, so I am not alone in trying to get cacti to monitor an Airport Network. The majority of my network is wireless and uses on Airport Extreme and 2 Airport Express's. What I am trying to do is graph the interfaces and any other information I can (signal, associatedhosts, etc). With the MIB from Apple that can be found here. I am able to get information from the AP's but nothing that cacti understands.

Has anyone put together some custom .xml files for queries and graphs?

TIA

[axelilly]

You shouldn't need any customer xml for that. The xml is only used for getting index data.

Why can't your cacti read the SNMP result for your airport? Assuming you have the correct OID, SNMP will return a numeric value which RRDTool will graph. Its pretty simple really. All you need is the MIB so that you can pick out which OIDs you want to graph.

[grayman]

Well I must be approaching this from the wrong way. I have not been able to getting any decent information from anyone of my devices, I have found a way to actually put the OID into cacti for my apple devices. Screen shots, instructions at this popint are welcome. I have also made a request to the mailing list as well but this post is the most information i have seen so far on this matter.

-Ron

[axelilly]

Well the only information you can get from your airports using snmp, are what OIDs are available. If there is a custom MIB for the airport, just install it in your SNMP walker program of choice. Then make sure that you have the airport coonfigured for snmp read only. Make note of what the community name string is set to. Finally, have you snmpwalker walk that device. You will then have a full list of what OIDs you can can graph if you want.

[soy_el_pulpo]

I am trying to do the exactly same thing, but how do I configure the snmpwalker to do that and integrate the results to Cacti? I have read most of the documentation, but since I am a SNMP neophite, probably I didn't see it and it is right there.

Thanks for your help.

Eduardo

[gandalf]

Please see 1st link of my sig. Select the Advanced Topic, from SNMPtable to Data Query
Reinhard