[mrtg] Re: MRTG statistics for Cabletron's switches

[Justin Shore]

Lars,
	We have a wide assortment of Cabletron switches on this 
campus.  Here's a short list:

2E42-27R
2H252-25R
6E132-25
6E122-26
6H202-24
6E233-49
9A000
9A426-01
9xXXX-XX
ELS-26TX

and many many more.  The firmware ranges greatly from the first 
revision to the very latest.  You don't need a special MIB to get 
information out of the switch.  The standard MIBs that come with any 
SNMP software will work fine unless you have some very special needs. 
I've never used any special Cabletron MIBs personally.  OIDs aren't 
needed either.  If you want something that fancy then you'll need to 
get the MIBs off of their FTP site.  I can't imagine ever needing 
anything that fancy out of a switch, unless of course you were using 
NetSight.  The config files I use are plain, generic configs produced 
by cfgmaker with some HTML crap I added to format the outputted page. 
It's all very standard.  Nothing fancy is needed to monitor those 
devices.  Just SNMPwalk them and look for the info you want to graph 
(99 times out of 100 it's I/O).  Good luck

Justin


At 6:21 PM +0200 7/6/01, Lars Holmström wrote:
>What kind of Cabletron switch are you using ?
>Software version ?
>MIB ?
>OID of the mib ?
>Can you also supply the config file you are using with MRTG ?
>/Lars
>
>Justin Shore wrote:
>
>>  At 2:18 PM +0300 7/6/01, Hounta Irene-Angelica wrote:
>>  >We want to use a MIB for Cabletron's switches.We do know the number of
>>  >the MIB but we can't make the MRTG work by using this MIB.
>>  >We tried to put it in the *.cfg file as a target,still it didn't
>>  >work.There was a message saying that the target could not be reached.
>>  >Any information would be really helpful
>>  >Thanks in advance.
>>  >Irene Hounta.
>>
>>  Irene,
>>          What are you trying to graph?  Basic network I/O or something
>>  else?  Basic I/O, Errors, etc... don't need a MIB for MRTG to graph
>>  them.
>>
>>  Justin
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