Monitoring a switch ?!?! :(

[Markus_90]

Hello everybody

I have problems with zabbix & monitoring a switch.

I am not a specialist so i need information for a beginner ;-)


For a project for school I have to monitor a Cisco Catalyst 3500 XL switch. I have read a lot of in the internet but nothing could help me

I want to do easy things like a poll ore monitor the CPU free capacity.


My problem is, I dont know how does it works. I have read that I need a "OID" and MID Tables.

The first Problem is how does I get this fucking OID????


Than I have to know how I import the MID tables, that Zabbix could interpret the output from the OID.


Could you help me ? Do you know what I mean? :-D And sorry for my bad English


Greetings from germany

[JBo]

Hi,

Have you read SNMP part in Zabbix documentation ?

You should become familiar with snmp command line tools, specially snmpwalk and snmpget in order to find relevant OIDs.

Also, Zabbix comes with a few SNMP host templates.
You can check Template_SNMPv2_Device to see how a SNMP item is configured.

Regards,
JBo

[eskytthe]

Sorry but if you only need to do monitoring of one device, zabbix may be a bit to big to start with in my opinion.
Maybe take a look at some small tools like:

http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/network-device-monitor

But please return to zabbix when you need more monitoring
/Erik