[mrtg] monitoring devices without snmp

[Stuart Kendrick]

hi ikechukwu,

if your device ... your 'ip encap' ... reports traffic through some 
other method, then you can write your own data gathering script to feed 
values to MRTG

here, for example, i'm querying a database for a parameter (the total 
number of critical vulnerabilities that nessus has reported for a 
particular population of hosts)

Target[vulnCountOne]: `/home/netops/bin/count-vuln anyVuln 0`
MaxBytes[vulnCountOne]: 100000
Title[vulnCountOne]: Hosts w/One or More Vulnerabilities
PageTop[vulnCountOne]: <H1>Vulnerable Hosts</H1>
   <p><i>These graphs chart the number of hosts reporting one or more 
vulnerabili
ties against the total number of hosts defined in Soma</i></p>
YLegend[vulnCountOne]: # of Hosts
Options[vulnCountOne]: gauge,nopercent,integer
[...]

the script 'count-vuln' performs a SQL call, gathers information, does a 
calculation ... and at the end, delivers to STDOUT:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Perl6::Say;
[...]
   say $hostCount;
   say $vulnCountOne;
   say localtime();
   say $name;

the script must return four numbers:  the first two are the values you 
want MRTG to graph, the third is the uptime for the device (doesn't make 
sense in my context, so i just hand MRTG localtime), and the fourth is a 
string identifying the name of the target.  see "External Monitoring 
Scripts" at http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/doc/mrtg-reference.en.html

so, if you can ssh to your 'ip encap' device and gather the data that 
way ... or telnet ... or dig through a log file ... then you can write 
one of these external monitoring script thingies to hand MRTG the 
necessary data

hth,

--sk

stuart kendrick
fhcrc

Renzo Clavijo wrote:
> Hi ..
> 
> If your IP ENCAP does not have any SNMP agent, you could try monitoring 
> the devices attached to it, I mean: switches, routers, firewalls, 
> servers and so on; but I believe it is mandatory an SNMP agent on these 
> devices to get the values you need.
> 
> Cheers ...
> 
> 
> On 3/11/07, *Ikechukwu Anyanwu* <ian at emperion.net 
> <mailto:ian at emperion.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
>     How can I monitor  the traffic from my IP ENCAP without intalling any
>     snmp agent on it
> 
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