[mrtg] Monitoring trunk info on brocades

[Barton Wold]

Thanks for the feedback.  I'm new to MRTG and still have a bit of a learning curve.  The output of the snmpwalk command is in hex, like:

bcsi.commDev.fibrechannel.fcSwitch.sw.swTrunk.swTrunkGrpTable.swTrunkGrpEntry.swTrunkGrpRx.1 : OCTET STRING-   (hex): length = 8
     0:  00 00 00 01 d1 ab 4c 8b -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --     ......L.........
bcsi.commDev.fibrechannel.fcSwitch.sw.swTrunk.swTrunkGrpTable.swTrunkGrpEntry.swTrunkGrpRx.2 : OCTET STRING-   (hex): length = 8
     0:  00 00 00 00 00 00 1f ec -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --     ................

I am thinking that I need to use the ConversionCode parameter and convert the hex input string into an integer.  But I'm having a problem figuring this out.  When I try to display the input string using a simple conversion code:

sub Hex2Dec {
  my $hex = $_[0];
  print "HEX: $hex\n";
}

The output of the mrtg command is:

HEX: ¨ú-
HEX: |Ð

I obviously can't parse this.  Not surprisingly, the output string using a different OID that is working shows integer values in the output.  So what am I missing?  Is there a parameter I need to pass to the mrtg.cfg file?

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel J McDonald [mailto:dan.mcdonald at austinenergy.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:23 PM
To: Barton Wold
Subject: Re: [mrtg] Monitoring trunk info on brocades

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 14:57 -0500, Barton Wold wrote:
> I have recently setup snmp monitoring via MRTG to graph the read/write
> I/O on my brocade 48k and 24k.  However, now I would like to use the
> SNMP OID for swTrunkGrpTx and swTrunkGrpRx so I can gather info on
> trunk throughput.  I get successful output from the snmpwalk command,
> but MRTG fails with:
>

You probably need to append an instance.  If it works with *snmpget*, then it will work with mrtg.



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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com