Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Les Mikesell wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: I found this pdf with a much nicer overview: http://www.google.com/url?sa=Ustart=2q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdfei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDAsig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATeczKIZh7gusg=AFQjCNEy6gnHrSgQOneREKleuRvgAssmHw

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.04.2009 um 22:24 schrieb Les Mikesell: The about to be released 1.7.3 (unstable branch) version is supposed to add per-user acls to control what devices you can see. If you want to help test this feature, grab a copy in a few days or build from the source trunk. I will have to

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-24 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
- Daniel Bird db...@sgul.ac.uk escreveu: How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is connected to? I was hoping that this is somehow possible using the mac address and the data gathered from snmpwalk/snmpget requests but I'm not having much luck. How would

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-24 Thread Les Mikesell
Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is connected to? I was hoping that this is somehow possible using the mac address and the data gathered from snmpwalk/snmpget requests but I'm not having much luck. How would you tackle

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-24 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
- Antonio da Silva Martins Junior asmart...@uem.br escreveu: - Daniel Bird db...@sgul.ac.uk escreveu: How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is connected to? I was hoping that this is somehow possible using the mac address and the data gathered

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-23 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Craig White wrote: Thus far (and admittedly this is premature), I find Zenoss a lot beefier but I spent a ton of time setting it up the first time until I figured things out whereas I spent comparatively no time setting OpenNMS up.

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-23 Thread Rainer Duffner
Craig White schrieb: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: I found this pdf with a much nicer overview:

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-23 Thread Les Mikesell
Rainer Duffner wrote: I found this pdf with a much nicer overview: http://www.google.com/url?sa=Ustart=2q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdfei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDAsig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATeczKIZh7gusg=AFQjCNEy6gnHrSgQOneREKleuRvgAssmHw

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-23 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:50 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: I am interested in a comparison with Zenoss - but wait until you know your way around opennms. Just ask on the opennms list if it doesn't do something you expect. admittedly, this analysis is less than 24 hours after installation

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-23 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:46 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Craig White wrote: I am interested in a comparison with Zenoss - but wait until you know your way around opennms. Just ask on the opennms list if it doesn't do something you expect. admittedly, this analysis is less than

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread David . Mackintosh
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:25:59PM +0100, Daniel Bird wrote: Take a look at Netdisco. I seem to remember it's a little tricky to set up on CentOS but I wouldn't live without it now. A little tricky? Last time I looked at it, I described the installation process as only slightly less

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Sean Carolan
Last time I looked at it, I described the installation process as only slightly less complicated than building a Saturn-V rocket out of 1960's era TV parts. You were not kidding - I some how managed to get netdisco installed using the CentOS installer script but there were several points where

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
david.mackint...@xdroop.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:25:59PM +0100, Daniel Bird wrote: Take a look at Netdisco. I seem to remember it's a little tricky to set up on CentOS but I wouldn't live without it now. A little tricky? Last time I looked at it, I described the

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Sean Carolan
I'll repeat my recommendation for OpenNMS.  Getting started is as easy as 'yum install' (almost...).  And it can do about anything you'd want in a monitoring system - including matching up those switch ports with the connected devices. Les, at first I didn't heed your advice because I figured

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Sean Carolan wrote: I'll repeat my recommendation for OpenNMS. Getting started is as easy as 'yum install' (almost...). And it can do about anything you'd want in a monitoring system - including matching up those switch ports with the connected devices. Les, at first I didn't heed your

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Sean Carolan
Back to my first email message when I thought you were already using OpenNMS...  You have to uncomment the Linkd service in etc/service-configuration.xml, then restart opennms and give it some time to probe.  Then it should show from the 'View Node Link Detailed Info' at the top left of a

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 12:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Sean Carolan wrote: It was somewhat difficult to install on Centos (mostly just getting a Sun JVM installed sanely) until they added the yum repository. It is still somewhat complicated to deal with all of the things it can do so I'd

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig White wrote: OK, I've been tracking this conversation, installed/configured/started OpenNMS and have discovered everything and in fact, edited service-configuration.xml as recommended. I'm sort of comparing this to Zenoss which I had to stop (snmp conflicts) to run OpenNMS. I can

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-22 Thread Les Mikesell
Craig White wrote: Thus far (and admittedly this is premature), I find Zenoss a lot beefier but I spent a ton of time setting it up the first time until I figured things out whereas I spent comparatively no time setting OpenNMS up. But I have learned things along the way, especially getting

[CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-21 Thread Sean Carolan
I have a Cisco 6509 switch that I'm monitoring with SNMP from a CentOS5 machine. SNMP polls are the only access I have to this device, we are not allowed to log on via telnet. How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is connected to? I was hoping that this is somehow

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-21 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com: I have a Cisco 6509 switch that I'm monitoring with SNMP from a CentOS5 machine. SNMP polls are the only access I have to this device, we are not allowed to log on via telnet. How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-21 Thread David . Mackintosh
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:44:47AM -0500, Sean Carolan wrote: How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is connected to? I was hoping that this is somehow possible using the mac address and the data gathered from snmpwalk/snmpget requests but I'm not having much luck.

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Les Mikesell wrote: Sean Carolan wrote: I have a Cisco 6509 switch that I'm monitoring with SNMP from a CentOS5 machine. SNMP polls are the only access I have to this device, we are not allowed to log on via telnet. How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-21 Thread Sean Carolan
We have a six- or seven- year old cisco 3750 which is running an IOS which doesn't have the newer MIB; for this switch, we must explicitly query the MIB-II Bridge for each VLAN.  I would hope that newer relesaes of IOS wouldn't have this limitation. This is exactly what I was missing. Thank

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-21 Thread Sean Carolan
My notes: http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/snmp/Switching+Tables Hi Dave, so using the example from your site above I tested a mac address against one of our switches: [scaro...@host:~]$ snmpwalk -v1 -c pub...@200 10.100.3.6 .1.3.6.1.2.1.17.4.3 | grep `hexmac2decoid 00:B0:D0:E1:BF:52`

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel Bird
How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is connected to? I was hoping that this is somehow possible using the mac address and the data gathered from snmpwalk/snmpget requests but I'm not having much luck. How would you tackle this problem? Take a look at