I've re-read the extending JFFNMS documentation, and I've read your
post. I've reviewed Dell's specs for OpenManage and have found a single
OID (to start) and DellStatus specs at
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.200.10.1.2.1,1=other|2=unknown|3=ok|4=noncritical|5=critical|6=nonrecoverable
that should return the overall status of all chassis on an OpenManage
system. If so much as one component goes bad, this Chassis status OID
should change values. This is perfect, because if so much as a fan stops
on one of the PowerEdges, I want JFFNMS to email and page me.
I've added this OID to JFFNMS under the Poller Items table, using Poller
Command set to snmp_status. Next, I set the snmp community string for a
Host object running OM, do a Manual Discovery w/o port scan, but I still
don't see my new OID. I must be missing something, and something big.
I've been through the Interface Types, Poller Grouping, and Poller
Backends tables several times, and I can't seem to find any way to
create a relationship to the new Poller Item I've created. I thought
maybe I could adjust the Linux/Unix Host Poller Group or Linux/Unix
System Info Interface Type or maybe the Cisco Interface Poller Group or
the Physical Interface Interface Type, but no am having no luck. I also
tried creating new entries for each of these different types of objects,
but none of them seem to pull up a field that relates to the new Poller
Item I've got.
From the docs, I got the impression that using the snmp_status poller,
I should be able to read arbitrary status from any snmp OID and get
JFFNMS to recognize it, but so far, no luck. There appear to be OIDs for
different things listed in both Poller Items (Parameters) and Interface
Types (Discovery Parameters). I also got the impression that I wouldn't
need to touch anything in the engine/pollers or engine/backends or
engine/discovery directories, because everything was already written for
snmp interfaces and that custom code wasn't required... is this wrong?
Is it entirely manual (write your own PHP [everything]?)
Why write a custom poller for a Mitsubishi UPS if you can just custom
query it's OID using the JFFNMS GUI? Maybe you can't?
Thanks for any clues you can give me.
----- Original Message -----
*From:* falz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Sent:* 01/19/2006 10:38:38 AM
*To:* jffnms-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* [jffnms-users] Dell OpenManage
Here's a link to a thread when I was creating a new type for a UPS
(Mitsubishi). There should be some useful information there:
http://www.mail-archive.com/jffnms-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03809.html
And on another note, I'll be working on adding support for APC PDU's
(power distribution units/Power Strips) next week, so I'll be
submitting that data to the list and to Javier. This will be useful to
anyone that uses these in racks, and should be universal for all APC
PDU's. If anyone is curious about these, these and the "Power Tower
XL's" from another company seem to be the creme of the crop, but the
APC's are WAY cheaper.
--falz
On 1/19/06, Ben Lentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's sort of where I'm at, too. I've read the documentation on
Expanding JFFNMS for Creating a SNMP-based Interface, but I can't seem
to get it to work... and I'm confused about the relationship between
Interface Types, Poller Groups, Poller Items, and Poller Backends. I
think there's a pre-canned php-based backend that will do generic SNMP
status checks, but I'll be damned if I can figure out how it works.
http://jffnms.org/docs/expanding.html#id31
I'd like to have pro-active notification of our Dell server health;
waiting until someone walks into the server room and witnesses a
flashing orange light or hears a beeps seems a little pre-historic and
it would seem that JFFNMS + OpenManage could page and email me as it
happens instead.
If anyone's done this and wants to ship me a .sql dump of what's been
changed, that would be awesome.
----- Original Message -----
*From:* "Christopher Boggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Sent:* 01/19/2006 10:17:09 AM
*To:* jffnms-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* [jffnms-users] Dell OpenManage
I'm interested in this as well - I have been trying to retro-fit some of the
other generic SNMP discovery scripts that came with JFFNMS but to no avail,
mostly because I'm horrible with PHP.
I'm mostly doing this so that JFFNMS can monitor the temperature of our Dell
servers... I've gotten the servers to respond to the correct OID (meaning
openmanage is working) but I cannot get the discovery script working right
to find the interface and add it.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Lentz
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:58 PM
To: jffnms-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [jffnms-users] Dell OpenManage
Greetings, List!
I am interested in being able to monitor additional interfaces using JFFNMS
and Dell OpenManage software. I can get the OpenManage software running on
my system and exposed via SNMP, but when I do a discovery of the host in
JFFNMS, I don't get any additional interfaces besides the normal disk, cpu,
process, memory, and network stuff that's available without OpenManage.
I believe that I need a custom poller to read the OpenManage-specific SNMP
data, but I've been too thick thus far to figure out how to do this on my
own. Does anyone have any pointers? Has anyone integrated JFFNMS to a
non-out-of-the-box SNMP interface, like OpenView or something? How much
money would make it worth while to Javier? ;-)
Any information would be greatly appreciated. We'd be happy being able to
know that we can get the detailed hardware status information that
OpenManage provides available in a NMS as fantastic and easy to use as
JFFNMS!
Thanks,
Ben Lentz
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