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 hav

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=U&start=2&q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdf&ei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDA&sig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATeczKIZh7g&usg=AFQjCNEy6gnHrSgQOneRE

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

2009-04-24 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
- "Antonio da Silva Martins Junior" escreveu: > - "Daniel Bird" 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/snmpg

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 woul

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

2009-04-24 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
- "Daniel Bird" 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 you tac

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 analysi

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

2009-04-23 Thread Les Mikesell
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 24 hours after installation > but... > > Zenoss and O

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 Les Mikesell
Rainer Duffner wrote: >> >>> I found this pdf with a much nicer overview: >>> http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdf&ei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDA&sig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATeczKIZh7g&usg=AFQjCNEy6gnHrSgQOneREKleuRvgAssmHw >>>

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: >> http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdf&ei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDA&sig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATe

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 OpenN

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 gett

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

2009-04-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:50 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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

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. >

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

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 Les Mikesell
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 suggest joining the mailing list if you haven't alre

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

2009-04-22 Thread Sean Carolan
> 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 suggest joining the mailing list if you haven't already.  It does > support

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 hee

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 figu

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
> 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 whe

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 compli

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 Netd

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

2009-04-21 Thread David . Mackintosh
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:22:07PM -0500, Sean Carolan wrote: > SNMPv2-SMI::mib-2.17.4.3.1.2.0.176.208.225.191.82 = INTEGER: 389 > > Does this mean that the machine is plugged into port 389? I didn't > think there were 389 ports on the switch. It'd be a very large switch. No, it just means it'

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` SNMPv2-SMI:

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. Tha

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 i

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

2009-04-21 Thread Les Mikesell
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 > connected to? I was h

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 luc

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

2009-04-21 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting 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 wa

[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 possi