Retrieivng data from Corinex Head-end

[Ammer]

Hi,

I am trying to monitor a Corinex High Density Coax Head-End.
This is a central unit that connects a number of Coax modems.

I want to get the list of connections from the device.
the mac addresses, the uplink and downlink speeds.

There is the option of using telnet.
Whenever you connect with a normal telnet session, it logs right into the user prompt and with a /info command you get a table with all the required data.

However, when i use telnet-agent on zabbix, it becomes unsupported with the error " No Login Prompt"

Is there a way to make zabbix use telnet without logging in?

Another option is logging in to the web interface.
Here it requires a password and the required data is shown.
In the website source its displayed like this:

var pcp=new Array('10','12','14','15','11','13','9');
var pcma=new Array('000xxxxx6E0B','000xxxxx6EA6','000xxxxx6EA7','000xxxxx6EA8','000xxxxx6EA9','000Bxxxx7389','000xxxxx738A');
var pcptx=new Array('166 Mbps','171 Mbps','165 Mbps','151 Mbps','166 Mbps','162 Mbps','165 Mbps');
var pcprx=new Array('162 Mbps','153 Mbps','135 Mbps','33 Mbps','132 Mbps','144 Mbps','82 Mbps');
var pcbs=new Array('Enabled','Enabled','Enabled','Enabled','Enabled','Enabled','Enabled');

What would be the best way forward?

Hope someone can help me, thnx

[aib]

Did you check SNMP settings?
For network devices I prefer SNMP Items - it's provide a lot of information and an easy way to collect it.

If you would like to use WEB-interface - you can write your own script, which will use 'curl' to download page and php/perl/python/etc to extract the information which you need.

[taytrho]

I'm having the same issue with all of our [HTML=www.planet.com.tw]Planet[/HTML] switches. I can telnet just fine from Centos 6 CLI, I can even telnet through the zabbix user

sudo -u zabbix telnet 10.10.10.10
admin
password

This works fine. But zabbix can't figure it out... my best guess from skimming hte zabbix manual, is that this Taiwan switch uses different character encoding than UTF8, which "zabbix assumes" is being used unless otherwise specified. Perhaps my telnet client is discovering the encoding automatically. Specifying the encoding in zabbix is possible:

telnet.run[telnet2test,10.10.10.10,22,<encoding>]

But I'm not sure how to determine the encoding...