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Digi MIBs --> Orion NMS? (1st ever post)

dh1 over 6 years ago

Hi,

Brand new to Orion NMS. I work for CP Rail. CP's SW Orion NMS monitors thousands of devices across the system. I have been tasked with remote management of some new trackside devices which only have serial ports. One avenue may be to use a Digi Connect SP device which is essentially a serial to Ethernet bridge with custom Python scripting. I have successfully imported the Digi MIB's for this device in the free SW Tool: Network Device Monitor - shown below:

SolarWinds Tool.jpg

My question is, does the Orion NMS currently have the Digi MIB's already compiled? If not, how is this done? Specifically I require the following Digi MIBs:

DIGI-SMI

DIGI-SERIAL-ALARM-TRAPS-MIB

DIGI-SERIAL-TRAPS-MIB

DIGI-DEVICE-INFO-MIB

Appreciate any help in this direction.

BTW, I already signed up for the newbie Virtual Classroom on Nov 28.

Regards,

David

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deverts over 6 years ago +1

Hi, David...Welcome to the club! So, one of the really cool features in Orion is the Universal Device Poller (UnDP). I can't say for certain if the MIBs are in Orion already, but you can use UnDP to build…

0 deverts over 6 years ago

Hi, David...Welcome to the club!
So, one of the really cool features in Orion is the Universal Device Poller (UnDP). I can't say for certain if the MIBs are in Orion already, but you can use UnDP to build custom pollers to collect and display any information you want. There are tons of examples on Thwack of this very thing.
NPM 12.2 Administrator Guide - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support
About a third of the way down the page is "Custom Monitors."
If you need help building these, let us know.
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0 dh1 over 6 years ago in reply to deverts

Thanks for your quick reply! I'll check that out.
How can one check to see which MIB's are already compiled in our system? And it is hard to compile a MIB within Orion NMS? With the free tool, it was relatively simple.
And if you are familiar - does Orion NMS provide a "sandbox" area for testing new devices?
Regards,
David
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0 cahunt over 6 years ago in reply to dh1
Couple of tools you can use to scan/MIB Walk your devices.
SolarWinds SNMP Walk: A new tool for collecting SNMP MIB walks - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support
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If you have the Engineers Toolset there is the MIBWalk, it is an older tool and works well on simple devices. I prefer it in some cases.
With the MIBWalk you set the IP and Community String then let it scan the device.
Scan you devices and see what metrics you want to capture then setup the UnDP's for those specific OID's or Tables.
Once obtained you can graph, chart, or alert on the Values/Returns
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