I have completed the first version of the Cisco Management Pack for SP1 compatibility. The monitoring in the management pack is identical to the R2 version of the MP, described most recently here. Due to the dependence on the WMI SNMP provider for object discovery, there are inevitably some scalability limitations intrinsic to the SP1 [...]
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I’m hoping to finish up the SP1 version of the Cisco Management Pack pretty soon, but I’ve modified the R2 version to include several new changes. The current version: 1.0.2.6 can be downloaded here. The changes in this version are: Added three new containment classes: Cisco Device Chassis, Cisco Device System Components, and Cisco Device [...]
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I’ve made a few minor updates to the Net-SNMP Management Packs, available at the same download location. The changes in 1.0.1.30 are: Implemented new class: Net-SNMP Monitored Process Instance, along with rules to collect and monitor process instance CPU and memory use. Reference the MP documentation in the zip file (and the preceding post) for more information. Updated [...]
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Regardless of the operating system, monitoring of the availability and resource utilization of individual processes is a pretty standard requirement. Between WMI and PerfMon counters, this is easy on Windows systems, but doing the same on UNIX/Linux systems can be a little bit more complicated. In Operations Manager 2007 (R2) environments, there are three general [...]
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I have completed version 1.0.1 of the Net-SNMP management packs for OpsMgr 2007 R2 , and I thought I’d go ahead and share them. At this point, my testing of the management packs has been on a small development network with Sun and CentOS servers, but so far everything is looking pretty good. These management [...]
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The Net-SNMP agent is a cross-platform SNMP agent that is often bundled with UNIX (e.g. Solaris) and Linux distributions (including VMWare and Checkpoint Splat). The agent implements some relatively standard MIBs, such as the UC Davis (UCD-SNMP-MIB) and HOST-RESOURCES MIBs, exposing a good selection of operating system metrics for monitoring. Furthermore, the agent is remarkably [...]
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As previously mentioned, the Cisco Management Pack that I have been describing in the past several posts is specific to OpsMgr R2, due to its reliance on the capability of the System.SnmpProbe’s function to return multiple items in an SNMP walk, which is a feature introduced in R2. My intention was to design the management [...]
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I have uploaded version 1.01.27 of the Cisco Management Pack. This minor update includes a few fixes and some new features added in response to some helpful comments from readers who have tried this MP out. The changes in this version are: Group Population rules have been fixed so that they can be edited in [...]
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Note: This management pack has been replaced by the more feature-rich xSNMP suite. I still have some more full-scale testing to complete, but I have finished the first version of the Cisco monitoring management pack that I have described in the last few posts. This version is R2 only, but I hope to have an [...]
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For the Cisco Management Pack, a handful of different approaches were required when designing the monitors and rules and their supporting workflows. These approaches can generally be placed into three categories: Simple SNMP GET operations Operations that require data manipulation Operations that require access to previously collected values For example, monitoring of an interface’s operational [...]
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