[mrtg] Re: &@$%! SNMP head aches, Please Help!!

[Brandon Lederer]

SonicWall SNMP was broke.... Totally broke.  you have to have the LATEST
firmware for it to work.  THEN all you have to do is run cfgmaker against
the LAN IP (from the LAN side) and it should work flawlessly.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Sexson [mailto:bretts at nque.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:08 PM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] &@$%! SNMP head aches, Please Help!!


Hi all,
Well after 3 days of battling with this I have finally joined the mailing
list and am throwing my difficulties out there to see if anyone else has
found a way to overcome them, or maybe the problems I'm having are self-made
( I'm not as think as you Dumb I am!) anyway onto the problems.

First, I have a firewall device in my primary office, I just want to monitor
the bandwidth usage on the DMZ, LAN, and WAN interfaces, now for the Best
part, It's a SonicWall Pro 200. (yes, yes I know a stroke of genius buying
that one).  Anyway its running firmware version 6.4.2.0 I've use SNMPGET and
SNMPWALK command to retrieve the info from the sonic wall and when I pole
the ifInOctets.x and the ifOutOctets.x It returns 0 for all except for .2
that return some 45 million something (my heart skipped a beat as I thought
hot damn I've got a DS3 and didn't even know it), well after observing the
.2 for a while I realized the number wasn't changing at all, so my plight
continued, I then scoured the web for possible solutions, including the
archives for this list.  I shortly found some information telling me to
download the MIB files for the particular sonicwall and firmware I have (I
was so sure my life was going to get better after this).  I put the files on
my mrtg machine added the LoadMibs: /bla/blahblah/blah/POS-sonicwall.mib to
my mrtg.cfg and ran mrtg manually a few time....nothing, I have grids with
no plotted data...*sigh*, I actually spent some time reading the sonicwall
mib's, I must say they are nearly completely worthless, unless you may want
to set a trap to you know when someone tries to hit you with a Subseven
attack that by the way the sonicwall blocks automatically.  At this point I
decide to let that bugger rest a while and move on to one of the firewall
devices at one of our sattelite locations, guess what kind of firewall's
these are... here's a hint they are the only kind that work with a sonicwall
pro 200's vpn....yep thats right more sonicwalls, little soho3's this
time....results were the same.  Ok time for a new strategy I decide to try
to monitor beyond the Pro 200 at our Cisco router at least then I would be
able to see what our total bandwidth usage is for this location.....well its
a Cisco 678 and it didn't friggen work either!!!! So now I'm thinking, no
way I've screwed up my MRTG ins

tall, or my perl install, or something, so I try one last device I setup
MRTG to talk to my 3Com Superstack.....worked like a charm.

So am I screwed trying to get the Sonic Walls and this Cisco 678 to talk to
mrtg,  I have spent hours looking for MIB's and OID's, I can find tons of
MIB's at cisco, but they don't have it broke out by product, how do I tell
which one I need?  

Please help me, your my only hope!

TIA!

Brett
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