[mrtg] Re: Dell PowerConnect 3024 Switch

[Darryl Kegg]

Robert,

	I am in the process of replacing all my PowerConnect 3024 switches
with Cisco Catalyst 3524 switches for a VOIP project.  Before that however,
I did make a few changes to the timeout and retries and have not had the
problems since then.  The key thing to the Dell switches is supplying the IP
address of the host that will be running MRTG otherwise the 3024 won't
respond to an SNMP requests, public or otherwise.

Let me know if you have any questions, I put together a configuration
document on setting up these switches for my network documentation and can
dig it up for you.

Thanks,

Darryl


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Walters [mailto:Robert.Walters at LodgeWorks.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 3:04 PM
To: 'Ed Johnson'; 'mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch'
Cc: Darryl Kegg
Subject: RE: [mrtg] Re: Dell PowerConnect 3024 Switch

Darryl, did you have any luck getting your MRTG to work with your Power
Connect switches?  I have both 3024s and 3048s, and I am trying to figure it
our now.  If anyone has experience using  MRTG running on windows with 3024
or 3048, any advice would be appreciated.  

Thanks,

RPW




-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Johnson [mailto:johnson-c at mail.mssc.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:56 AM
To: 'mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch'
Cc: Darryl Kegg
Subject: [mrtg] Re: Dell PowerConnect 3024 Switch


Hi Darryl,
  We have a bunch of Dell Power Connect Switches here at MSSC. I had a
little 
trouble getting them set up, but I think I've got it pretty fairly whipped 
now.
  Are you running Windows or Linux? It makes a difference.
  For Linux the following will work:

First, make the configuration file. Make sure you know what your 
community-string is! (The [\] are for line continuation. Otherwise this is 
all one long command.)

cfgmaker \
--global "Workdir: PATH-TO-YOUR-WORKING-DIRECTORY" \
--global "Options[_]: growright,bits" \
--ifref=nr \
--no-down \
--show-op-down \
--descint \
COMMUNITY-STRING at IP-OR-NAME > OUTPUT-PATH-FOR-YOUR-CFG-FILE.cfg

Next, you'll have to fix the .cfg. it breaks 2 lines in every section. Once 
after a ["], and another after a [']. The switch.fix file is attached.
Either 
place it in the current working directory, or modify the path in the
command.


sed -f switch.fix 	PATH-TO-YOUR-CFG.cfg > /tmp/TEMP-FILE

After the .cfg file is fixed, remove the old .cfg file and replace it with
the 
TEMP-FILE. (NOTE: You have to output to another file! Don't stomp your 
original!)

Finally, create the index.

indexmaker PATH-TO-YOUR-CFG-FILE.cfg \
--output=OUTPUT-PATH-FOR-YOUR-DEVICE.html \
--title=DEVICE-NAME \
--columns=3 \
--width=500 \
--height=200 \

  These commands (with the exception of the sed script) will work for any 
platform. You can adjust options to suit yourself. Consult the documentation

for details. As far as I know, sed only works under Linux/Unix. If you're 
using Windows you may have to find a different tool to fix the broken lines 
in the config file. If you're only dealing with one file you may even decide

to do it by hand. But if you've got a whole bunch of files (like us) you'll 
need some way to automate the editing process.
  I hope this helps. If you need anything else, give us a holler.
Ed Johnson
Network Administrator's Office
Missouri Southern State College
johnson-c at mail.mssc.edu 

On Monday 12 August 2002 03:10 pm, you wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to monitor and graph the port usage on a series of Dell
> PowerConnect 3024 switches and don't know where to start, the SNMP public
> community is set to GET = On but I don't have any more information on the
> switch and CFGMAKER doesn't like it.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Darryl

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