Can someone tell me if there is a way to do an inventory on Cisco switches and report if there is a gbic or sfp installed and what type (sx or lx).
Hi Craig J--
You can create Universal Device Poller that will poll the MIB for these Cisco switches.
Here's the documetation, both online and pdf. Also included is the chapter on how to do this.
Thanks,
M
Monitoring MIBs with Universal Device Pollers
Using Universal Device Pollers, Orion Network Performance Monitor has the ability to monitor more than just network status, availability, bandwidth, and errors. With Orion Universal Device Pollers, you can monitor virtually any statistic that your network devices can record, including:
Interface traffic
CPU temperature
Addressing errors
UPS battery status
Current connections to a website
Orion Universal Device Pollers can collect and record both realtime and historical statistics. Using Management Information Bases (MIBs) that are both in the extensive SolarWinds library and provided by SolarWinds users, Universal Device Pollers can retrieve data for nearly any conceivable network metric. Additionally, with Universal Device Poller transforms, you can mathematically manipulate the results of multiple pollers to create your own custom network performance metrics. All network information collected from Universal Device Pollers is easily accessible within the Orion Web Console.
Warning: Universal Device Pollers do not collect information from Hot Standby Engines. If an Orion NPM server fails, data collection stops for any Universal Device Pollers on that server. Any Universal Device Pollers polling that server will be unable to report any information for the failed Orion NPM server, even if it fails-over to an Orion Hot Standby Engine. For more information about Orion Hot Standby Engines, see “Orion Hot Standby Engine” on page 259.
Note: Universal Device Pollers are tied directly to the individual Orion NPM polling engines on which they are hosted. As a result, all Universal Device Pollers assigned to a monitored node that is moved from one Orion NPM polling engine to another must be moved to the new polling engine as well.
Creating Universal Device Pollers
Orion NPM Universal Device Pollers can poll objects from any management information base (MIB) in the SolarWinds MIB database or poll any MIB object designated by a unique object identifier (OID) that you may need to monitor. This capability allows you to monitor virtually any statistic that your network devices can record, as long as the selected statistic has an assigned OID in an available 208 Monitoring MIBs with Universal Device Pollers
MIB. The following procedure uses the Orion Universal Device Poller Wizard to create and define a new poller.
To create and define a new universal device poller:
1. Click Start > All Programs > SolarWinds Orion > Universal Device Poller.
2. Click File > New Universal Device Poller.
3. If you know the OID of the object you want to poll, type it in the OID field.
4. If you do not know the OID of the object you want to poll, click Browse MIB Tree, and then complete the following steps to select an object to poll:
a. If you want to directly browse the available MIB object definitions, expand the MIB tree in the left pane to navigate until you locate the object you want to poll, and then click Select.
Note: Details describing the selected poller display in the right pane.
b. If you want to search available MIB definitions, click Search MIBs at the top right, select a criterion to Search By (Name, Description keyword, or OID), provide appropriate search strings, click Search, and then click Select once you have found the MIB object you need to poll.
Note: When searching by OID, the OID Details displayed below the search fields indicate the MIB you are currently searching. If an existing OID exactly matches the OID string provided, details for the matching OID display below the Search field. Searching by name or description returns all OIDs with names or descriptions, respectively, containing the provided search string. When you click any OID, details and a description of the corresponding object display below the search results.
5. If you want to test the validity of a selected object for a specific node, select an appropriate test node in the right pane, using the available criteria, and then click Test.
Note: A green check icon indicates that the selected object was successfully polled for the selected node, returning the indicated value. A yellow warning icon indicates that the test poll was not successful for the reason indicated.
6. If you tested your poller and it failed, check the following:
Are you using the correct community string for the node that is being polled for the test? For more information about providing community strings, see “Managing Devices in the Web Console” on page 67.
Does the selected device support the MIB/OID that is being polled? Refer to the documentation supplied by the device vendor to confirm the MIBs supported by your device.
Can you access the device from the Orion NPM server? Ping the device to see if it responds or use a SolarWinds Toolset application, such as IP
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Network Browser, to confirm that the device is responding to both ICMP and SNMP requests.
7. Click Select when you have located the OID you need.
8. If necessary, edit the provided Name for your poller, and then edit the optional Description.
Notes:
A poller name is required. Orion NPM uses this name to refer to your poller throughout the Orion Web Console. Names are recorded without spaces, so any spaces that are included in the name are removed
The description is optional, but it may be helpful in identifying the type of information collected by your poller.
9. If you want to change the advanced poller option defaults, click + next to Show Advanced Options, and then complete the following steps:
a. Select the MIB Value Type for the selected poller.
Note: Depending on the type of poller, the poller returns statistics formatted as a Rate, a Counter, or a Raw Value.
b. If you selected Rate or Counter as your MIB Value Type, provide an appropriate Unit and Time Frame.
c. If you selected Raw Value as your MIB Value Type, select the appropriate Format in which the polled raw values should appear.
Note: If you are using the Enumerated format, click Map Values to provide strings corresponding to the values returned by the poller.
d. Select the SNMP Get Type appropriate for the object you are polling.
e. Select Node or Interface, as appropriate for the object you are polling.
10. If you want to maintain historical data collected by your poller, select Yes for the Keep Historical Data option.
Note: SolarWinds recommends that you keep historical data to take full advantage of the data display features present in Orion NPM. Select Yes if you want to display collected poller data in charts and gauges within the Orion Web Console.
11. If you want the poller to begin polling immediately upon configuration, confirm that Enabled is selected as the poller Status.
Note: If you select Disabled, the poller will not collect statistics until you enable the poller.
12. In the Group field, either select an existing group or provide a new group name to aid in organizing your pollers, and then click Next. 210 Monitoring MIBs with Universal Device Pollers
13. Click + to expand the node tree as necessary, and then check all the nodes to which you want to apply your new poller.
Note: Available groups are listed in the Group By field. Select a group to selectively limit number of nodes listed in the node tree.
14. If you want to see the current results for your poller on the nodes you have checked, click Test.
Note: A green check icon indicates that the poller successfully polled the selected node, returning the indicated value. A yellow warning icon indicates that the test poll was not successful for the reason indicated.
15. If you tested your poller and it failed, check the following:
Does the device support the MIB/OID that is being polled? Refer to the documentation supplied by the device vendor to confirm the MIBs supported by your device.
Can you access the device from the Orion Network Performance Monitor server? Ping the device to see if it responds or use a SolarWinds Toolset application, such as IP Network Browser, to confirm that the device is responding to both ICMP and SNMP requests.
16. Click Next.
17. If you want to display poller results in Orion Web Console views, confirm that Yes is selected, and then, for each available Orion NPM view, check the types of poller results resources, if any, that you want to display.
Note: Click Preview to see how your poller resource will display in the selected Orion Web Console view.
18. If you only want to display the poller results resource in the event that the poller returns valid results, check Do not show this poller if it is not assigned.
Are there any changes done after 10 years?
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