Looking for Big IP LTM template

[Dommel]

Hello all,

Anyone have a template for Big IP LTM version 11.6 for Zabbix version 2.4?

We used to be able to monitor the Sync status for the pair of LTMs we have but it no longer works. I found an article on F5 that speaks to a change in the SYSTEM-MIB that the OID has changed but if I change my current SNMP check to either of the new OIDs it comes up as Not Supported in Zabbix.


"In F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB, the sysAttrConfigsyncState (.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.1.1.1.6.0) object has been deprecated and replaced by the sysCmSyncStatus (.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.14.1) and sysCmSyncStatusDetails (.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.14.2) objects."

[kloczek]

Hello all,

Anyone have a template for Big IP LTM version 11.6 for Zabbix version 2.4?

We used to be able to monitor the Sync status for the pair of LTMs we have but it no longer works. I found an article on F5 that speaks to a change in the SYSTEM-MIB that the OID has changed but if I change my current SNMP check to either of the new OIDs it comes up as Not Supported in Zabbix.


"In F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB, the sysAttrConfigsyncState (.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.1.1.1.6.0) object has been deprecated and replaced by the sysCmSyncStatus (.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.14.1) and sysCmSyncStatusDetails (.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.14.2) objects."

You must be using on zabbix side MIBs which you can grab from LTM admin web frontend. Seems F5 is changing constantly these templates without update properly MIBs version.

PS. I have LTM templates for 11.6 but for zabbix 2.2 but still I'm waiting on my company approval that I can publish all my SNMP templates
I should (hopefully) decision about publishing this stuff in next 2-3 weeks.

Could you please show me what you have in sysGeneral OIDs?

[Dommel]

Thank you for the reply kloczek,

I have imported the "F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB.txt" and others into the /usr/share/snmp/mibs directory on the Zabbix server, I just am not sure how to use them. I am quite new to Zabbix and Linux so I am not sure I have things quite right.

I am not sure what you are asking for when you are asking "Could you please show me what you have in sysGeneral OIDs?"

[kloczek]

Thank you for the reply kloczek,

I have imported the "F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB.txt" and others into the /usr/share/snmp/mibs directory on the Zabbix server, I just am not sure how to use them. I am quite new to Zabbix and Linux so I am not sure I have things quite right.

I am not sure what you are asking for when you are asking "Could you please show me what you have in sysGeneral OIDs?"

If you want to have properly packaged F5 MIGS you can use my source rpm.
You must:
- copy your MIB files to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
- execute "rpmbuild --rebuild net-snmp-MIB-F5-BIGIP-11.6-1.el6.nosrc.rpm"

After all in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch you will find noarch package. Installation: "rpm -Uvh net-snmp-MIB-F5-BIGIP-11.6-1*.noarch.rpm"

Postinstallation of this package will register MIBs installed by this rpm in net-snmp configuration files. If you are interested about details just have look on spec file in nosrc.rpm.
Generally each MIB which is not part of standard net-snmp distribution needs to be registered in net-snmp configuration using line

mib +<MIB-NAME>

and this package all what it does it add couple of such lines net-snmp configuration. You can register MIBS without this rpm of course as well

Attached rpm contains kind of my template packaging which can be used on deploy quickly any additional set of MIBs and keep them under rpm control.

If you will have registered MIBs please try using snmpget command check sysGeneral OID. This OID contain type of your hardware.
I'll be able to tell you are mine templates (which I should be able publish shortly).

Could you please show me as well what you have in sysORID OID?
This OID shows list of MIBs used by your device.

If content this OID will be the same like mine:

SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.1 = OID: SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB::snmpFrameworkMIBCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.2 = OID: SNMP-MPD-MIB::snmpMPDCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.3 = OID: SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmMIBCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.4 = OID: SNMPv2-MIB::snmpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.5 = OID: TCP-MIB::tcpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.6 = OID: IP-MIB::ip
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.7 = OID: UDP-MIB::udpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.8 = OID: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmBasicGroup

I'm almost 100% sure you will be able to reuse my templates.

http://support.ipmonitor.com/mibs/F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB/item.aspx?id=sysGeneral

http://support.ipmonitor.com/mibs/SNMPV2-MIB/item.aspx?id=sysORID

PS. attached nosrc.rpm is gzipped. Seems zabbix forum does not allow attach rpm files

[Dommel]

Thanks again kloczek,

We have performed the steps you described but we are still not having much luck. Is there a way to tell on the Zabbix server once the package installer is done to tell of the MIB are being used?



Here is what we have for the sysORID on the LTM

SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.1 = OID: SNMP-MPD-MIB::snmpMPDCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.2 = OID: SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB::usmMIBCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.3 = OID: SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB::snmpFrameworkMIBCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.4 = OID: SNMPv2-MIB::snmpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.5 = OID: TCP-MIB::tcpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.6 = OID: RFC1213-MIB::ip
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.7 = OID: UDP-MIB::udpMIB
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.8 = OID: SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB::vacmBasicGroup
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.9 = OID: SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB::snmpNotifyFullCompliance
SNMPv2-MIB::sysORID.10 = OID: NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB::notificationLogMIB

[Dommel]

kloczek,

I want to thank you again for your input it has been tremendously helpful. We got it working with one small modification that we were overlooking.

Our Linux system the Zabbix is installed on is using the SNMP Daemon for SNMP so we were modifying the wrong .conf file. We were modifying snmp.conf but needed to modify snmpd.conf.

Once we made the changes to the correct conf file it worked fine.

If you ever do get the opportunity to post your Templates, it would likely be greatly helpful.