[mrtg] MRTG for ACE/FWSM ?

[Daniel J McDonald]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 12:03 -0500, vishh_champ wrote:
> Hello everyone, 
> 
> I came to know about MRTG that it monitors SNMP network devices and also
> MRTG is being used to graph all sorts of network devices
> 
> Since i havent used it before so I m not aware about its features.So i want
> to know the following: 
> 
> Can this software/tool be used for getting statistics/ reports/ graphs for
> the ACE Module ( Used with the Cisco 6500 series Switch). 

Yes, but it takes a bit of work to get what you want.  I have published
a template on http://steveshipway.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=1621,
but it still needs some work.  You also need to set up snmp v3 properly
to get the multi-context information from it.


> If YES then What Stats/information/reports/graphs it can provide for the ACE
> Module. 

The mibs are pretty rich, if a bit complex.  if there is something in
particular that you are looking for that my template doesn't show, post
here and I might take a shot at extending my script.  my time is pretty
limited, so don't expect a fast turnaround.

> 
> Can this software/tool can provide efficient analysis for FWSM

Depends what you are looking for.  Traffic graphs on an FWSM are mostly
pointless, because that's not the constrained entity.  Again I have a
template posted in the same forum on Steve's site.

Note that the FWSM only supports snmp v1 (up to version 3.0) and snmp
v2c (3.1 and 4.0).  I don't run multi-context, so I'm not certain what
that would do.

> 
> Thank You - Vishal 
>