QLogic SANbox Interface Monitoring/Graphing

[srupp]

Greetings all,

I'm new to Zabbix but have tried to do my homework before posting. If anyone could offer a few moments of assistance, I would greatly welcome it.

I have two QLogic SANbox 3810 FC switches that I want to monitor interfaces on. I found the document that tells me how to query and that the values returned are in hex. (Link 1)

Goal: Graph those interfaces.

I feel confident that I understand the snmp call and I can use the following command on my Ubuntu system to make sure I'm getting valid data:

snmpget -v1 -c public 10.10.10.51 1.3.6.1.3.94.4.5.1.6.16.0.0.192.221.25.118.44.0.0. 0.0.0.0.0.0.1

From there I created the device on Zabbix. Then I create the item.

http://img860.imageshack.us/i/zab1.png/

I then create the graph and add the item.

http://img43.imageshack.us/i/zab2.png/

http://img546.imageshack.us/i/zab3.png/

However I do not have any data on the graph. I started digging around and found web resources two and three (below).

I can't read link two but from one of the posts, it seems someone in the thread got the graphing working from their picture.

On the third link, I don't believe this is applicable because 1.8.4 shouldn't have issues with hex anymore since it was an earlier build that had to be patched.

Would anyone be able to point me in a direction or suggest a resource for reference?

Thank you kindly!
Stephen

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Setup:
Ubuntu Server 10.10
Zabbix 1.8.4

Web Resources:

http://kb.qlogic.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/182/1175499_f.SAL_Public.html

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17124&highlight=qlogic

http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/qlogic-sanbox-zabbix/

[Rudd]

Disclaimer upfront, I am not actually monitoring any devices that return snmp values in hex. Or not monitoring those items

I do notice that the "Units" value in the screen shot is invalid. Interface traffic would typically use "bps". Then you would apply a multiplier to adjust for the received values. For a traditional ethernet interface you would use a multiplier of 8.

Having said that I would expect the graph to be out of whack, not empty.

Can you confirm you are actually receiving and storing the data. Easiest way to do this would be via "Monitoring -> Latest data" and select the Qlogic1 host.

[srupp]

Thank you kindly Rudd for taking the time to reply! Being so new, I welcome all brainstorming!

So I checked Monitoring -> Latest Data and I do not see my QLogic host in the list. This is a completely new setup, so the QLogic is the only device I had defined. However, the screen is completely empty.

I'm not entirely sure how to begin troubleshooting this.

I can ssh to my Zabbix box, ping the QLogic and issue the snmpget command and confirm it communicates and returns change hex values. I could blow out all the configuration items for the QLogic and start again but if I am doing something incorrectly I suspect I would repeat my mistake.

[Rudd]

You're welcome

A good place to start is the Zabbix server logfile as defined by "LogFile=" in the zabbix_server.conf. If not defined Zabbix will use syslog. See if there are any entries related to the Qlogic1 host.

Perhaps a way to test the basics first is to add a ping test to the host. This does not address your challenge but verifies the validity of the Qlogic1 host item configuration.