Anybody monitoring Huawei switches and firewalls with SolarWinds? Is it smooth sailing or are there issues?
We are monitoring Huawei switches and though its not as complete as our cisco switches, the important features are there.
I just compared a random Huawei and Cisco switch we have, some things that are missing are CPU/memory Utilization, Hardware health and info on Switch stacks.
Thanks for the response. I am currently monitoring Huawei switches and firewalls using eSight. That's Huawei's answer to SolarWinds but it's not much of an answer. I would love to get back to SolarWinds but those counters you are missing are a pretty big deal.Do you happen to know if you guys have any Hauwei-specific MIBs loaded?
We have to use ESight for our Huawei estate as Solarwinds still does not fully support Huawei products (that we use).
AR & NE series routers interface stats, netflow but no sub interfaces , cpu or memory
S5700 series switch, no cpu or memory
Thanks for the reply. We have a bunch of S5700 series switches so that would be an issue. Sounds like a MIB thing. I going to try to do a little research on Huawei MIBs and see if anything turns up. How are you getting on with eSight? You are the first person I've come across who admits to having heard of it.
Have you guys tried doing mibwalks on the huawei gear and just setting up custom UNDP and CPU/Mem pollers on Orion for the apprioriate OID's? I've done this kind of thing before and had pretty good results. The custom hardware health wouldn't show up alongside the native stuff but with enough SWQL wizardry you can make them look like they were built in resources.
-Marc Netterfield
Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services
Thanks for replying. I’m sure much magic can be made with UnDP but I haven’t gotten that far yet. I’m just trying to get my ducks in a row before putting the hard sell on management for SolarWinds.
For us it works well, being able to see all the elabel's in one place, do upgrades , provision interfaces, firewall, security etc , have a graphical representation of the router/switch and do mapping is invaluable.
The interesting things that we have found between SolarWinds and ESight are a discrepancy in reported interface utilization , SolarWinds ability to read Netstream (their version of Netflow) is actually better than ESight's.
The issue with memory and CPU is that some Huawei devices use dual management processors or at least split the way the mib's read so that rather than an overall cpu/memory reading that ESight gives you SolarWinds gives a lot of individual readings which are no use.
We are currently creating a custom Poller to monitor the Huawei switch's CPU and memory：
HUAWEI S5700
CPU load:
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.1.1.5
Memory total:
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.1.1.9
Memory pecent
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.1.1.7
HUAWEI S7706
Thanks to everyone for the feedback. As usual, the hardest part of this process will be to get the bean counters to pony up the funds.
Hi,
we are using a lot of Huawei S2700 / 5700 / 5720 / 7700 switches. Here are the OIDs for a couple of values we follow, except for what other members mentioned here.
All monitored in UnDP
1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.11.67108873 - system serial number
1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.10.67108873
S5700-28P-BAT - switch with it's own internal battery
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.15.1.4 - battery capacity
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.15.1.5 - remaining time
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.15.1.1 - power status (power source)
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.15.1.2 - battery temperature 1
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.15.1.3 - battery temperature 2
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.6.157.1.4 rated power in mwatt
S5700 / S7700 laser optics values
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.2.1.2 - laser module vendor's description
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.3.1.8 - Optical RX
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.3.1.9 - Optical TX
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.3.1.4 - optical module vendor's seriam num.
1.3.6.1.4.1.2011.5.25.31.1.1.3.1.25 - optical module vendor's part. num.
appreciate if you have OID for serial number info of Huawei devices....the ones above don't work. thx
Have any of you guys tried pulling data northbound through the IMS to Solarwinds to monitor GPON and DWDM gear?
