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Getting Interface Duplex Mode

Hi all,

this may well be a newbie question. I'm currently playing with a demo version of
ORION v7.8; and we are about to buy the product.
I was looking to get the duplex status of network interfaces, and curiously I can't find it in the web or admin interface.
I've been looking in the report writer and could find MTUs and some other
interesting details, but could not get the duplex mode.

Does anybody know what I'm missing ?

Thx
Alain

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aLTeReGo

To the best of my knowledge this is not something that SolarWinds can tell you. In fact I don't believe this is part of the standard mibs for Linux or windows but an extension provided on a proprietary basis by your network card manufacturer. Believe it or not, interface speed and duplex is not part of Windows or Linux OS. The "Advanced Tab" in Windows is added by your network card manufacturer's drivers and is proprietary. In Linux you must use mii-tool or other similar program to set your speed/duplex. Both operating systems assume auto negotiation and provide no native tools to set or view duplex.

Alain

That was a newbie question... got my answer somewhere else:

You are correct the Interface Duplex (half/full duplex setting) is not
available in Orion. This is due to the fact that this parameter is not
stored in the MIB-II.Interfaces MIB.
The only way to view this data is through the switch port mapper in the
Engineers toolkit. I believe this gets its data from the dot1dbridge
mib.

This topic can be closed.
Alain

Mithrilhall

My Suggestion...

Write your own page using PHP. It has built in snmp support and it works great. I've written some custom pages for our Orion install in PHP so we can turn ports on/off on our switches.

I'm also in the process of writing a custom page in PHP that will display the switches MAC table so we know what MAC address are plugged into what ports.

Alain

quote:Originally posted by Mithrilhall

My Suggestion...

Write your own page using PHP. It has built in snmp support and it works great. I've written some custom pages for our Orion install in PHP so we can turn ports on/off on our switches.

I'm also in the process of writing a custom page in PHP that will display the switches MAC table so we know what MAC address are plugged into what ports.

Wow.. did not knew PHP could do that... that may well be the solution I was looking for.. so I should set netsnmp apache and PHP on a linux box and then
reference those pages from within Solarwinds.
Any other good tricks ??

Alain

Mithrilhall

Are you looking for the Dot3StatsTable(EtherLike-MIB:dot3StatsDuplexStatus)?

BTW

I installed PHPv5 on my Orion box(Windows 2000 Server) and added a custom section to our Orion pages. See image below:

jonchill

Thanks Mithrilhall, that should do until Solarwinds integrate Cirrus into Orion.

Jon

mpatters

Hello,

I'm interested in the show bridge address table utility in your screen capture. I was wondering if you would share with me where I could find it or something similar to it?

Sincerely,

Mike

quote:Originally posted by Mithrilhall

Are you looking for the Dot3StatsTable(EtherLike-MIB:dot3StatsDuplexStatus)?

BTW

I installed PHPv5 on my Orion box(Windows 2000 Server) and added a custom section to our Orion pages. See image below:

Mithrilhall

Hi Mike.

The "Show Bridge Address-Table" page I wrote in PHP. As you can see, SolarWinds wrote the pages of Orion in ASP. You could easily re-write the page in ASP.

If you want the code I'll be happy to post it.

jonchill

Mithrihall

It would be great if you could post your code?

Thanks

Jon

Mithrilhall

Sorry about using quote on this but it screwed up the page format if I used the code tag.

quote:
<?php
require_once 'db_connection.php';
require_once "PHPTelnetx.php";

$tmp = "";
global $ccount;
$ccount = 0;

function alpha($telnet,$tmp, $ccount)
{
$telnet->DoCommand(' ', $result);
$working = explode("\n", $result);
for ($y=1;$y<count($working);$y++)
{
if(substr_count($working[$y], "Quit")>=1)
{
alpha(&$telnet,&$tmp, &$ccount);
}
else
{
$a = str_replace("", "", $working[$y]);
$b = str_replace("[K", "", $a);
$c = str_replace("% Unrecognized command", "", $b);
beta(&$c, &$ccount);
}
}
}
function beta($c, $ccount)
{
$xxx = substr($c, 0, 10);
$yyy = substr($c, 11, 8);
$zzz = substr($c, 20, strlen($c));
if (strpos($c, ":") !== false)
{
if ($yyy == "00:09:5b" || $yyy == "00:0f:b5" || $yyy == "00:14:6c")
{
echo $xxx . " <a href='http://asm2/snmp/mac.php?MAC=" . $yyy . "' target='_blank' style='text-decoration: none; color: #ff3333;'>" . $yyy . "</a>:" . $zzz . "\n";
$test = $xxx . " <a href='http://asm2/snmp/mac.php?MAC=" . $yyy . "' target='_blank' style='text-decoration: none; color: #ff3333;'>" . $yyy . "</a>:" . $zzz . "\n";
$ccount = $ccount + 1;
}
else
{
echo $xxx . " <a href='http://asm2/snmp/mac.php?MAC=" . $yyy . "' target='_blank' style='text-decoration: none; color: #00ff00;'>" . $yyy . "</a>:" . $zzz . "\n";
}
}
else
{
echo $c;
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>sh bridge address-table</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

<body style="background-color: #000000; color: #CCCCCC;">
<pre>
<?php
while ($row = mssql_fetch_array($msresults))
{
if (($row['SysObjectID'] == '1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10895.3003')||($row['SysObjectID'] == '1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10895.3000')||($row['SysObjectID'] == '1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10895.3007')||($row['SysObjectID'] == '1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10895.3006'))
{
$strIPAddress = $row['IP_Address'];
$strUsername = "root";
$strPassword = $row['PWord'];
$SysObjectID = $row['SysObjectID'];

$telnet = new PHPTelnet();
$result = $telnet->Connect($strIPAddress,$strUsername,$strPassword);

switch ($result)
{
case 0:
$telnet->DoCommand('', $result);
$a = str_replace("[K", "", $result);
$b = str_replace("", "", $a);
$prompt = $b;
echo $prompt;

$telnet->DoCommand('sh bridge address-table', $result);
$working = explode("\n", $result);
for ($z=0;$z<count($working);$z++)
{
if(substr_count($working[$z], "Quit")>=1)
{
alpha(&$telnet,&$tmp, &$ccount);
}
else
{
echo beta(&$working[$z], &$ccount);
}
}
$telnet->Disconnect();
break;
case 1:
echo '[PHP Telnet] Connect failed: Unable to open network connection';
break;
case 2:
echo '[PHP Telnet] Connect failed: Unknown host';
break;
case 3:
echo '[PHP Telnet] Connect failed: Login failed';
break;
case 4:
echo '[PHP Telnet] Connect failed: Your PHP version does not support PHP Telnet';
break;
}
}
else
{
echo "<br /><span style='color: blue; font-weight: bold;'>N0 +3ln3t 4 y0u!</span>";
}
}
if($ccount != 0)
{
if($ccount == 1)
{
echo "<br />There is <span style='color: #ff3333;;'>" . $ccount . "</span> Netgear device on this segment.";
}
else
{
echo "<br />There are <span style='color: #ff3333;;'>" . $ccount . "</span> Netgear devices on this segment.";
}
}
?>
</pre>
</body>
</html>

Mithrilhall

Here is the DB_Connection.php file:


<?php
	$myServer = "127.0.0.1";
	$myUser   = "Database_UserName";
	$myPass   = "Password";
	$myDB     = "NetPerfMon";
	$myTable  = "nodes";
	if (isset($_GET['NID']))
	{
		$NID = $_GET['NID'];
	}
	else
	{
		$NID = 0;
	}

	$s = @mssql_connect($myServer, $myUser, $myPass)
	or die("Couldn't connect to SQL Server on $myServer ");

	$msdb=mssql_select_db($myDB,$s);
	$msquery = "select NodeID, IP_Address, Community, Caption, SysObjectID, PWord from $myTable WHERE NodeID =" . $NID;
	$msresults = mssql_query($msquery);
?>

Mithrilhall

Here is the PHPTelnetX.php file (I didn't write this...it is available on the web...I just modified it where I needed to):


<?php
/*
PHPTelnet 1.0
by Antone Roundy
adapted from code found on the PHP website
public domain
*/

class PHPTelnet {
	var $use_usleep=0;	// change to 1 for faster execution
		// don't change to 1 on Windows servers unless you have PHP 5
	var $sleeptime=125000;
	var $loginsleeptime=2000000;

	var $fp=NULL;
	var $loginprompt;

	/*
	0 = success
	1 = couldn't open network connection
	2 = unknown host
	3 = login failed
	4 = PHP version too low
	*/
	function Connect($server,$user,$pass) {
		$rv=0;
		$vers=explode('.',PHP_VERSION);
		$needvers=array(4,3,0);
		$j=count($vers);
		$k=count($needvers);
		if ($k<$j) $j=$k;
		for ($i=0;$i<$j;$i++) {
			if (($vers[$i]+0)>$needvers[$i]) break;
			if (($vers[$i]+0)<$needvers[$i]) return 4;
		}

		$this->Disconnect();

		if (strlen($server)) {
			if (preg_match('/[^0-9.]/',$server)) {
				$ip=gethostbyname($server);
				if ($ip==$server) {
					$ip='';
					$rv=2;
				}
			} else $ip=$server;
		} else $ip='127.0.0.1';

		if (strlen($ip)) {
			if ($this->fp=fsockopen($ip,23,&$errno, &$errstr, 60)) {
				fputs($this->fp,chr(0xFF).chr(0xFB).chr(0x1F).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFB).
				chr(0x20).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFB).chr(0x18).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFB).
				chr(0x27).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFD).chr(0x01).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFB).
				chr(0x03).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFD).chr(0x03).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFC).
				chr(0x23).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFC).chr(0x24).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFA).
				chr(0x1F).chr(0x00).chr(0x50).chr(0x00).chr(0x18).chr(0xFF).
				chr(0xF0).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFA).chr(0x20).chr(0x00).chr(0x33).
				chr(0x38).chr(0x34).chr(0x30).chr(0x30).chr(0x2C).chr(0x33).
				chr(0x38).chr(0x34).chr(0x30).chr(0x30).chr(0xFF).chr(0xF0).
				chr(0xFF).chr(0xFA).chr(0x27).chr(0x00).chr(0xFF).chr(0xF0).
				chr(0xFF).chr(0xFA).chr(0x18).chr(0x00).chr(0x58).chr(0x54).
				chr(0x45).chr(0x52).chr(0x4D).chr(0xFF).chr(0xF0));
				if ($this->use_usleep) usleep($this->sleeptime);
				else sleep(1);

				fputs($this->fp,chr(0xFF).chr(0xFC).chr(0x01).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFC).
				chr(0x22).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFE).chr(0x05).chr(0xFF).chr(0xFC).chr(0x21));
				if ($this->use_usleep) usleep($this->sleeptime);
				else sleep(1);
				$this->GetResponse($r);
				$r=explode("\n",$r);
				$this->loginprompt=$r[count($r)-1];

				fputs($this->fp,"$user\r");
				if ($this->use_usleep) usleep($this->sleeptime);
				else sleep(1);

				fputs($this->fp,"$pass\r");
				if ($this->use_usleep) usleep($this->loginsleeptime);
				else sleep(1);
				$this->GetResponse($r);
				$r=explode("\n",$r);
				if (($r[count($r)-1]=='')||($this->loginprompt==$r[count($r)-1])) {
					$rv=3;
					$this->Disconnect();
				}
			} else $rv=1;
		}

		return $rv;
	}

	function Disconnect($exit=1) {
		if ($this->fp) {
			if ($exit) $this->DoCommand('exit',$junk);
			fclose($this->fp);
			$this->fp=NULL;
		}
	}

	function DoCommand($c,&$r) {
		if ($this->fp) {
			fputs($this->fp,"$c\r");
			if ($this->use_usleep) usleep($this->sleeptime);
			else sleep(1);
			$this->GetResponse($r);
			$r=preg_replace("/^.*?\n(.*)\n[^\n]*$/","$1",$r);
		}
		return $this->fp?1:0;
	}

	function GetResponse(&$r) {
		$r='';
		do { 
			$r.=fread($this->fp,2000);
			$s=socket_get_status($this->fp);
		} while ($s['unread_bytes']);
	}
}
?>

Mithrilhall

This is what I use to call my pages (from the picture posted earilier):


<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
if(document.images)
{
	pics = new Array();
	pics[1] = new Image(24,24);
	pics[1].src = "">asm2/.../saveu.jpg";
	pics[2] = new Image(24,24);
	pics[2].src = "">asm2/.../saved.jpg";
	pics[3] = new Image(24,24);
	pics[3].src = "">asm2/.../savec.jpg";
	pics[4] = new Image(24,24);
	pics[4].src = "">asm2/.../dellu.jpg";
	pics[5] = new Image(24,24);
	pics[5].src = "">asm2/.../delld.jpg";
	pics[6] = new Image(24,24);
	pics[6].src = "">asm2/.../dellc.jpg";
	pics[7] = new Image(24,24);
	pics[7].src = "">asm2/.../portu.jpg";
	pics[8] = new Image(24,24);
	pics[8].src = "">asm2/.../porto.jpg";
	pics[9] = new Image(24,24);
	pics[9].src = "">asm2/.../portd.jpg";
}

function swapIt(from,to)
{
	if(document.images)
	{
		document.images[from].src = pics[to].src;
	}
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
	<tr>
		<td align="center">
			<a href="">asm2/.../save.php alt="Save Me!" title="Save Me!" target="_blank"><img src="">asm2/.../saveu.jpg" border="0" width="24" height="24" id="img1" name="img1" onMouseOver="swapIt('img1',2);" onMouseOut="swapIt('img1',1);" onMouseDown="swapIt('img1',3);" onMouseUp="swapIt('img1',2);"/></a>
		</td>
		<td>
			<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Save Running Config to Startup Config</span>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td align="center">
			<a href="">asm2/.../bridge.php target="_blank"><img src="">asm2/.../dellu.jpg" id="img2" name="img2" border="0" width="24" height="24" onMouseOver="swapIt('img2',5);" onMouseOut="swapIt('img2',4);" onMouseDown="swapIt('img2',6);" onMouseUp="swapIt('img2',5);"></a>
		</td>
		<td>
			<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Show Bridge Address-Table</span>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td align="center">
			<a href="">asm2/.../port2.php target="_blank"><img src="">asm2/.../portu.jpg" id="img3" name="img3" border="0" width="24" height="24" onMouseOver="swapIt('img3',8);" onMouseOut="swapIt('img3',7);" onMouseDown="swapIt('img3',9);" onMouseUp="swapIt('img3',7);"></a>
		</td>
		<td>
			<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Port Management (Dell Switches Only)</span>
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

shepard

THE DUPLEX STATUS IS AVAILABLE IN THE REAL-TIME INTERFACE MONITOR. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF IT IS AVAILABLE UNDER NPM SO THAT ALERTS CAN BE SET ON THEM?