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SNMP monitoring APEX with Cacti
Raz Biramah
asked this on October 06, 2011 02:32 pm
I am trying to use cacti to monitor the APEX but i can not integrate them in cacti graph, i downloaded the MIB from your ftp but do not know how to use them, do you have some specialized in that can help us do it?
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Raz,
I'm not very familiar with Cacti, but typically you have to go through an import process to import the MIB. You can typically also enter OID's manually.
Have you been able to pull the data in cacti, but you can't graph it?
Since I'm not familiar with Cacti I can't give you step by step, but I'll do what I can to help.
Does anyone in our community have experience with loading the MIBs into Cacti who could possibly help us with a tutorial?
Dear Scott,
the fact is i downloaded the MIB files from Trango's ftp server, but in cacti, the import page only allow to import XML file. So how to transform the MIB into XML?
Raz,
It looks like it isn't very easy to import a MIB into Cacti from the few minutes I spent searching. I found this comment: "You'll find a walkthrough for that at http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/html/data_input_methods.html. See also http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/html/script_to_graph.html and the post at http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=4143"
Maybe somebody has made a Cacti friendly file that you could use. Otherwise you can add the OIDs you need. This may help: http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/html/graph_snmp_oid.html
You may have better luck on Cacti's forums, as I've found people that have posted templates for our unlicensed products: http://forums.cacti.net/about22214.html
Scott.
Best thing to do is to (1) set up a data template, (2) graph template, and (3) host template.
It's really not that bad. Start with the data template. Pick the 4, 8, or 12 OIDs you want to track. Then set up a data template for each one. Name them something that is consistent (start with "Trango Apex" or something like that for each one.
Then decide how you want to display them. Many times you can combine 2 or more per graph if the data representation is similar. There are shortcuts for common tasks.
Then take all the graphs, and stick them in a host template. The data templates will follow automatically.
Then add the devices to your cacti as the appropriate host type.
I will be doing this in a couple of weeks (or sooner) for our new ApexPlus radios.
bp
Here's the host template that we built for Cacti. It tracks BER, RSL, and Sync (whether the link is up).