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Cisco AS5350 SNMP / MIBs help needed

I am a newbie when it comes to SNMP and Solarwinds tools. I am eager to learn how to get the most out of both SNMP and Solarwinds. Here's my recent situation

We are using an AS5350 Universal gateway to provide free dial up internet services to our members.

However we want to be able to record a call history of each call made, from who it was made, how much data was transferred and for how long the call lasted etc...

I can see the calltracker info on the AS5350, but I need it to be stored on our server. I also do not need all of the calltracker info to be recorded.

Using Solarwinds Engineering edition, I can see lots of useful data with their SNMP tools, MIB Browser, MIB Walker, etc..., however I have not been able to develope or create a trap or a means of harnessing just the data I need.

I was hoping someone could help me understand what it is I am missing, or point me in the right direction

Thanks in advance

Daryl P

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Network_Guru

What you need is a AAA server such as a Cisco ACS server or one of the free Radius servers.
You point your AS5350 to this AAA server & it will record all the stats you mentioned.
User, Duration, Mb in, Mb out, time of day, etc.
A product like Sawmill makes it really easy to run reports on the stats you want, although there may be some freeware GNU log parsers out there for these as well.

-=Cheers=-
NG

ddaryl

an AAA server will give me better details/control of the data I want then Syslog, or snmp ?

I'm new at much of this so your advice it greatly appreciated.

Isaac

Hi Daryl,

I agree with NG. We use Cisco ACS for RADIUS and Sawmill for parsing the logs. The combination provides for everything you seem to be looking for in terms of reporting. Because Sawmill provides a web front end you can link it into your Orion web page in a variety of ways.

Be fantastic.

Network_Guru

Update;

I've been looking for a way to record PPP user connection times on a Cisco 3700 series router to our Syslog server. I found the following link:
www.cisco.com/.../technologies_tech_note09186a00800ae938.shtml

However, the 'calltracker enable' command does not appear to be valid with this hardware, but it may work on the AS5000 series if you are running 12.1.3 IOS or higher.

-=Cheers=-
NG

ddaryl

Thanks for the updates !!! I have graduated some what since I started this topicand have been busy with IAS and RADIUS based upon advice I received.

I am at this point using Windows 2003 Server IAS as a RADIUS server.

I now want to parse the log files and a tool like sawmill might be what I'm looking for, I wanted to know if solarwinds offers any such tool ?

With our IAS RADIUS server, I can get CHAP to work, but I cannot get ms-chap-v2 to work, but thats a whole other can of worms, but for the fun of it I get the following message at my local machine when using ms-chap-v2. (no EAP or PEAP is being used since we have no wireless users)

"Error 778: It was not possible to verify the identity of the server"

The only reason to use ms-chap-v2 over chap is the ability to reset passwords and allow users to change them. Can't do that with chap.