I was trying to add my IBM Blade Center S Chassis to SolarWinds however I received a pop-up message stating, It does not support the Interface MIBs.
Is their a MIB I can add or am I just unable to manage this?
don't know about the timeout unless the device is many hops away from you.
once you get the MIBs listed you might research the OIDs you'll need and then check out the Orion Admin Guide about Universal Device Pollers. that is the piece you'll have to use. they have some sample custom pollers already in the UnDP gui.
i have one IBM blade server in Orion database and it only supports SNMP v1 - the chassis has the OID of 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.158.5
and from the internal components it has a Brocade Fiber switch with interfaces 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.158.5 and then it has a Cisco Switch with interfaces 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.158.5
and then it has some type of Exide Electronics power unit OID of 1.3.6.1.4.1.534.6
...every couple of months it goes crazy and the SNMP management has to be reset.
my apologies. let me update this for those OIDs. my cut-n-paste failed me early this morning before i had coffee...
on this IBM Blade Chassis - the internal Brocade is 1.3.6.1.4.1.1588.2.1.1.37 and then the Cisco is 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.592
Interesting.
In my Blade Chassis I have the 3 Blades, 4 Switches (Nortel), a external SAN.
My main goal is to watch it all.. especially do to a drive failure I did not realize till I physically saw the the warning light and I don't walk back there often.
Do i ahve to manually add the OIDs to NPM? If so how? (any documentation I read)
i didn't have to do much since the Orion MIB database had most of what i needed for the IBM BLADE chassis/components monitoring.
our SAN is EMC CLARiiON and SNMP is minimal with their MIBs. at least it does do SNMP TRAPS for drive failures. we do not have any Nortel.
if the Orion MIB database didn't (or doesn't) get what you need at discovery time then you can manually use UnDP (Universal Device Poller) with those OIDs i mentioned or else whatever you can mibbrowse from the devices on your own.
the Orion Admin Guide (PDF) has all the info you'll need for manually building pollers with UnDP - Chapter 16 Page 213.
Am I able to update the Orion MIB Database?
How can I find out what MIBs I need from the IBM Blade Center?
you can always update it and get the latest MIB file for Orion (Toolset .etc).
if you'll log into your Solarwinds Customer Portal account, they have the latest MIB file posted there. i just downloaded it myself and it is around 100MB and it has a README file included.
it sounds like you need to perform a "MIB walk" on your blade center - this is where you'll see those MIBs/OIDs available to you. if/when after you discover it into Orion.
by the way - our blade center (OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.2.6.158.5) only supports SNMP v1 which leaves a lot to be desired as for monitoring via MIBs. you want it at least SNMP v2 or above.
Downloading the latest MIB DB form the customer portal. (Thanks for the tip)
How do I perform a "MIB Walk" on my blade center?
there are a couple of tools in Solarwinds Engineers Toolset for mib browsing.
if you don't have this Solarwinds tool then you could download a trial-copy here http://www.solarwinds.com/register/registration.aspx?program=428&c=70150000000D8FL
it has two tools for doing a 'mib walk' - they are SNMP MIB BROWSER and MIB WALK. i like SNMP MIB BROWSER best, if you start at OID 1.3.6.1. then you'll learn a lot about the device.
and then there a few freeware MIB browsers out there via Google search.
When, I try to perform a MIB Walk/Tree it fails (timeout (31040)
However I know I have connectivity to the device. I'm looking at this further.
