Newbee Q - Networking HP A5800

[Blackduke77]

Hi, Sorry for this type of question, I am sure to most of you this is something easy. But I have struggled all weekend with this, even bought a book from Amazon for my Kindle, search this forum and online and I am still at a stand still.

I have an environment with about 60 switches, I want to monitor them with Zabbix before rolling out other services to monitor.

Can anyone help point me towards some idiot proof guidance how to monitor these Switches using SNMP, for all things useful, throughput, errors, discards, interface status changes.
I have managed somehow to poll for system name (not sure how I managed that) but I need to find out I think how to use a template and apply them to these switches.

If there was a bounty system I would even pay!! please help

Thanks

[coreychristian]

Not sure if you have found it yet, but I would suggest using SNMP low level discovery.

The documents can be found here.

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.2/manual/discovery/low_level_discovery

Also if you can dig around for templates for your specific switches and network gear, though sometimes it can be hard to find current templates.

[Blackduke77]

Thanks for the link, I could not find any templates for a HP A5800 or similar.

I did try to do a LLD to see what it provided but I could not get it to work, I was going to try again later.

I was also looking around to see if there is some sort of bounty feature where I could pay for someone else to come up with a template for a fee but I could not find such a service.

Any help or pointers to a completed template, a guide on how to do a LLD or an idea of how I can get someone else to do it for a fee would be greatly appreciated

[coreychristian]

I haven't played around much with network devices in zabbix, so I can only give you the basics there sorry.

In reply, I am not aware of a bounty program or anything similar, it is my experience though that zabbix professional services are pretty reasonably priced, though not sure if that would be in your range or not.

http://www.zabbix.com/services.php