[AusNOG] SNMP Monitoring

[Michael Baker]

Zenoss is fairly straight forward to do this once you install the ZenPacks
you need for the environment and changing the graph colors is not difficult
as the URL you use to fetch the images is Base 64 encoded rrdtool commands


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net>
wrote:

> It's only as complicated as you want to make it ;)
>
> For my own personal install, it's two 48-port gig switches and one
> cloudcore router.
>
> cd /opt/observium
> ./add_device.php switch1.host.name
> ./add_device.php switch2.host.name
> ./add_device.php router.host.name
>
> ./discovery.php -h new
> ./poller.php
>
> And make sure the cronjobs are running.  Voila you have monitoring.
>
> If you want to embed graphs into website pages, there's two ways to do it..
>
> 1) add $config['allow_unaugh_graphs' = 1;  to config.php   You can then
> embed graphs in pages.  However that means someone can take those graph
> URL's and play with them to view ANY graph.
>
> 2) Do the same, but use that URL in a PHP file on your website, going
> '<?=file_get_contents('http://url')?> to pass through the graph image :)
>
> --DG
>
>
>
>
> On 15 July 2014 10:14, ANSA SERVERS <info at ausnetservers.net.au> wrote:
>
>>  John has been having trouble replying (possibly because his email
>> address isn’t a member of the list) so I have relayed the info for him and
>> posted his response below..
>>
>>
>>
>> We are not looking for something as advanced as Observium, seems very
>> complicated and designed for big networks. We are only looking for
>> monitoring on 6 24 port gigabit switches.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Does Observium allow the network graphs to be embedded into a website and
>> how hard is it to implament.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am personally swaying more towards PRTG as I have had experience with
>> it before. Any other updates or suggestions would be much appreciated
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
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>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Adrian
>> Daluz
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 15 July 2014 10:06 AM
>>
>> *To:* Jared Hirst
>> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] SNMP Monitoring
>>
>>
>>
>> +1 for Observium.
>>
>>
>>
>> The fee for the “licensed” version is very reasonable and the customised
>> alerting was perfect for what we were looking for.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
>> <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] *On Behalf Of *Damien Gardner Jnr
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 15, 2014 7:44 AM
>> *To:* Jared Hirst
>> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] SNMP Monitoring
>>
>>
>>
>> Yep, Observium is the ducks' guts!
>>
>>
>>
>> For displaying in your portal or on your public website, use a small
>> proxy script to use the Observium API to pull the graphs and pass them
>> through, that way you don't need to be logged in to pull them :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15 July 2014 09:08, Jared Hirst <jared.hirst at serversaustralia.com.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Try observium! It's amazing.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>> Jared
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 15, 2014, ANSA SERVERS <info at ausnetservers.net.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hey Guys,
>>
>>
>>
>> First time posting on here but curious to if anyone has any ideas on
>> graph monitoring. We are currently using cacti but having alot of trouble
>> getting the images to show on our network operations panel and on our
>> website without being logged into the cacti admin interface. Possibly
>> suspecting a config issue or bad installation
>>
>>
>>
>> I tried following this but it didn’t work:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=42714
>>
>>
>>
>> Open to other open source software and suggestions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Software must be able to be embedded both into our public website as well
>> as into our network operations centre and be able to poll as low as
>> possible (preferably every minute via cron)
>>
>>
>>
>> Please contact me off list for suggestions. Our email is
>> noc at ausnetservers.net.au
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>>
>> John Kernachan
>>
>> ANSA NOC
>>
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