Network Appliance Volumes

I'm sure this has been beat to death, however....

Since Solarwinds doesn't grab the volumes off of Network Appliances when you add them (it seems to treat them strictly as a network device) I figured i need to do it all custom, which i don't mind doing.

I understand how to build Custom Pollers and i have all the OIDs I need AND they even exist in Solarwinds. here's my issue:

Volumes are referenced by the last digit (or 2) of the OID. The last digit of the OID is obtained via the OID that indexes all of the volumes. Pretty standard SNMP stuff.

In solarwinds how can i build a custom mib poller that can retrieve information from OID's that I don't know the last digit for since it has to be looked up in a table? Since each netapp will have different volumes both in qty and name.

How's everyone else monitoring disk information on Network Appliances?

Thanks!

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Dan.Wendeln

What you will need to do is grab the table that contains the indexes for the volumes. With that information in hand you can then create the custom poller is the full OID required. You will need to make sure and select the Get setting as opposed to GetNext when creating the poller. This should allow you to get the specific values you are looking for.

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smac8213

I already have all the OIDs, so basically what you are saying is i need to create a custom mib poller for every volume on every netapp using the specific OID? Thats crazy....or maybe i'm not understanding what you are saying?

When will solarwinds recognize NAS devices as servers rather then network devices? It has no trouble getting volume information for Windows and Unix boxes, which uses the same type of SNMP structure.

I've got 100's of volumes to deal with, managing those manual with custom mib pollers is just not worth my time, i'll just use a different application for my Network Appliances I guess.

aLTeReGo

I already have all the OIDs, so basically what you are saying is i need to create a custom mib poller for every volume on every netapp using the specific OID? Thats crazy....or maybe i'm not understanding what you are saying?

Yes, that's exactly what Ishikawa is saying. You will need to create a custom MIB poller for each and every volume on these NAS devices. SNMP table support is a frequently requested feature that's currently under consideration for future versions of Orion. You can make your feature request known here...
http://thwack.com/forums/57.aspx

When will solarwinds recognize NAS devices as servers rather then network devices? It has no trouble getting volume information for Windows and Unix boxes, which uses the same type of SNMP structure.

Anyone feel free to jump in and correct me here but the volumes that you're seeing in Orion from your Windows servers is information that is contained in the HOST-RESOURCE-MIB. This is a SNMP standard and not vendor specific MIB. Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Novell Netware to name only a few make their volume/disk information available via this HOST-RESOURCE-MIB. Orion is designed to only look here for volume information since 99% of all vendors use this for volume information.

I'm not trying to make myself flame bait but I think your beef is with NetApp not SolarWinds. I have several NAS devices here that all support the SNMP standard HOST-RESOURCE-MIB, and I have no problem retrieving volume information from them using Orion. No custom MIB pollers needed.