HP Procurve 5406 template anyone?

[elvar]

Anyone happen to have a template for monitoring and graphing an HP Procurve 5406 switch? One of the modules I have in this switch is an all gbic module so not sure if that matters.


Regards,
Elvar

[Cray]

There is already a template for HP procurve's switchs in Zabbix.

It's for a a 48 ports I think, but if you are at ease with template creation / edition, it shouldn't be long for you to have an effective switch monitoring ;)

Personnaly here's what I do when I want to monitor a specific device :

- is there already a template for what I'm looking for ?
- if so, I look at the monitored items and eventually edit the template so that only the corresponding items will be monitored
- if I have particular items to add, I just open solarWinds MIB browser / SNMPwalk and search for what I want to add :p

[elvar]

There is already a template for HP procurve's switchs in Zabbix.

It's for a a 48 ports I think, but if you are at ease with template creation / edition, it shouldn't be long for you to have an effective switch monitoring ;)

Personnaly here's what I do when I want to monitor a specific device :

- is there already a template for what I'm looking for ?
- if so, I look at the monitored items and eventually edit the template so that only the corresponding items will be monitored
- if I have particular items to add, I just open solarWinds MIB browser / SNMPwalk and search for what I want to add :p


Hi Cray, thanks for the response. I'm not yet nearly at ease with template creation, but I'm guessing that's the route I'll have to take. I was considering using Cacti for monitoring all switches and Zabbix for servers since it seems like it may be much easier getting switches monitored using Cacti. Hopefully I'll find a way to get switches up and running in Zabbix without the huge time investment.


Thanks!

[Cray]

It's not very difficult once you've understood how it works (after all, there's the word Simple in SNMP ;) )

Here are 2 screenshots from, respectively, OID view (wich I use along with other tools to view the OID / MIB trees) and from Zabbix itself.

http://www.image-load.eu/out.php/i158524_oidview1.PNG
http://www.image-load.eu/out.php/i158525_zabbixitems.PNG

here are the stages you have to get trough before getting a fully functionnal template for your Procurve :

- have a look at the existing HP Procurve template
- modify it (add / remove items) so that it suits you
-> to do so, you can use any SNMP walking / MIB browsing software (command line or graphical ones)
- add / clone graphs based on the items associated with the template

Voilà :)

[troffasky]

Use one of the template generators. Much easier than manually creating objects. I've used them successfully against several Procurves [fixed-configuration, not chassis-based, however].

[elvar]

Cray, thanks for the extra information, I'll check out that OIDView as well as it looks pretty nice.

[elvar]

Use one of the template generators. Much easier than manually creating objects. I've used them successfully against several Procurves [fixed-configuration, not chassis-based, however].


I've tried these actually and on multiple boxes I keep getting the same errors on each box shown below.

Can't locate Net/SNMP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./switch-xml-ciscomod.pl line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./switch-xml-ciscomod.pl line 4.


I have net-snmp installed on both the gentoo & ubuntu servers I'm testing on. The script also has the correct #!/usr/bin/perl as well.

Not sure what gives.

[elvar]

I've tried these actually and on multiple boxes I keep getting the same errors on each box shown below.

Can't locate Net/SNMP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./switch-xml-ciscomod.pl line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./switch-xml-ciscomod.pl line 4.


I have net-snmp installed on both the gentoo & ubuntu servers I'm testing on. The script also has the correct #!/usr/bin/perl as well.

Not sure what gives.


Thanks to a buddy who saw this post and helped me out, I just needed to install the net-snmp perl module.