How to monitor juniper ex series

[vikingo]

Hi there! I am new so I'll try to help when i can , not only request your help,
But today i am having some trouble
I 've installed zabbix, can access the web, it is all operational, but I DO NOT figure how to add juniper ex4200 series, i see there are some templates, but do not figure out how to do it...any whitepaper? any doc i can read?
I really need a step by step guide to this first implementation, no problem in reading , but please I need this very first time a "dummy guide" for my first monitoring
thanks a lot!"

[ArtemK]

Hi,

zabbix have pretty good wiki, start there.

you will need to:

• configure snmp on your switches
• add new hosts to zabbix for your switches
• add some templates to your hosts (AFAIK, zabbix comes with some SNMP interfaces templates)

I did recently the same task, added our ex4200 in virtual chassis to monitoring. However it was a little bit tricky to monitor health status, as there are multiple index OIDs, I used external script to perform SNMP LLD

I also use custom script to discover interfaces, which provides filtering on adminstatus.

I don't know if there are some dummy guides, probably no, but there were some books about zabbix, check on amazon.

[vikingo]

Thanks ArtemK

Hi ArtemK and thanks
I am learning from the link you provided. I'll try to get some "how to" from amazon, Thanks again

[gaspro]

Hi,
same here.
Did you manage to get the first device under control?
I did:
- add the host
- add the template for EX4200
- assign the template to the host, it found 380 items +/-

But....
I cant see it going.... i dont see any data nor graphs.
For example, with Zenoss Core, once added the device, it shows all the interface usage graphs which I find really useful.

Can someone please help ? Is there a noob reference guide on how to add just one device? I need to get started then I think I'll walk on my feets...

Thank you,
Carlo.