How to add a custom OID to monitor on a Cisco Router

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Hello Y`all,

I'm hoping the community could help answer some questions:

1) How would I add a custom OID in my NPM to be monitored on an existing Cisco Router?

2) Specifically I'm looking to monitor states of BGP. I'm not sure if Solarwinds has a way to monitor every state and if it can how would the colors look like if I placed it in Network Atlas? I guess to make things easier, I want BGP to be green if the state is "established" and for any other state the color would be red.

3) If Solarwinds can do what I'm looking for, how would that affect the state of the physical router itself as opposed to the state of BGP the router has configured? For example, right now the router is physically up so the color of the node is obviously green but if the BGP goes down the node will still be green because the node is still up but how would I know that BGP is down?

Sorry if this seems confusing but basically all I want to do is be able to monitor BGP for an existing node and have that come up as green or red depending on the states.

mthughes · Accepted Answer

Hi Kang,

You definitely want to use a table and not a custom chart. Add the Custom Table resource (it is considered category Reporting) to the page where you want to see the information.

1. When you edit the Custom Table you will select Specific Objects (static selection) for the selection method and then choose Custom Node Pollers from the Show dropdown.

Select the unique custom node pollers (they are shown per node) that you want displayed in the table. You should have already assigned your UnDP pollers to the correct nodes using the Universal Device Poller application on your SolarWinds Server.

2. Then add the columns that you want displayed in the table. You will click on the + symbol to add columns and select Custom Node Poller as the Orion object and then Custom Poller or Custom Poller Current Stats and choose the appropriate object.

3. Keep adding as many columns as you want and then you have the ability to sort and group the way you want, rename the Title of the Custom Table etc. Be aware that when you rename the Title that it also renames it on the SolarWinds page layout customization view which can be very frustrating when you are trying to create a similar resource 6 months later and you can not remember what type of resource you used.

Side Notes:

If you do not want to remember the BGP SNMP status values you can enumerate them into their proper readable values in the UnDP poller. Here are the correct values and how to set them in the UnDP,

You will still be able to create alerts based on the raw value.

If you needs any other pointers feel free to ask.

How to add a custom OID to monitor on a Cisco Router

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