<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>For uptime we use Perl to clean up the response and convert ticks to minutes, before sending to Nagios.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Oct 20, 2012, at 1:14 PM, "Will Bashlor" <<a href="mailto:wbashlor@atcnetworks.net">wbashlor@atcnetworks.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><base href="x-msg://614/"><style></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The thought in my mind for querying uptime via snmp had 2 purposes, 1.) to (possibly) alert on no snmp response, and 2.) To display uptime in a list format on Nagios for my network engineers/techs to view.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I like the idea of alerting on uptime < 1 day. But wouldn’t the reply need to be in a numbered time format only? I guess my mind is in Cacti threshold plugin mode. For example:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If the snmp respond replies with 4579200 in seconds (53 days), and I want to alert on uptime less than 1 day then my alert value would be <86400, correct? If this is true how can this be done when the response is:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 = Timeticks: (447923619) 51 days, 20:13:56.19”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Or can I alert based on </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">447923619 only? </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It appears the 447923619 is seconds with the last 2 digits being hundredths. Secondly, how can I simply display “51 days, 20:13:56.19” In Nagios? I know these are basic questions, I have a lot to learn and will continue to research every day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We have ssh only enabled for obvious security reasons, so that would work as well for monitoring device vitals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m still interested in what other Network Managers as myself are using, services wise to monitor critical core equipment vitals other than ping, if anyone else would like to share.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Today we are using an older version of whatsup with a little over 1000 devices/services (includes CPE) with ping only. I’m looking to Nagios as a possible future replacement. Love it so far, just a bit of a learning curve. NagiosQL helps me a lot with config files.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the response.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Will<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Fernando Feijo [<a href="mailto:ffeijo@ffeijo.com">mailto:ffeijo@ffeijo.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 20, 2012 12:19 PM<br><b>To:</b> Nagios Users List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor Cisco Uptime<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>>><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">What other services do you recommend monitoring for up/down status besides ping?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">You could also do ssh or even telnet, if you have them enabled.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">You did not ask, but a comment on uptime. You can use it to detect router bounces, detecting rogue reloads or perhaps system crashes. I have it to go to critical whenever the uptime is below X minutes, and email out. Network tests such as ping, snmp or ssh availability might miss a quick box's trip down, but uptime will always catch a reload.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Fernando<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">**<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Oct 20, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Will Bashlor <<a href="mailto:wbashlor@atcnetworks.net">wbashlor@atcnetworks.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi list,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well I’m not sure which of the steps below worked but it started working in Nagios and the check_snmp command works from cli. I’d still be interested in a guide or the correct steps I should have taken. I’m on a test vm now but will be reinstalling on a production vm later.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">root@atcdeb01:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp -H x.x.x.x -C public -o sysUpTime.0</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">SNMP OK - Timeticks: (448261008) 51 days, 21:10:10.08 |</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">root@atcdeb01:~#</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Now I’ve got to figure out a couple more things. Feel free to respond if you can help.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style="margin-left:.5in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">1.)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Even though ping and uptime show ok, the test Cisco host status went to “PENDING” in Nagios…?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style="margin-left:.5in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">2.)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Not sure how to get rid of part of the response I don’t need for uptime. I only need “51 days, 21:10:10.08” under Status Information in Nagios</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Another thing, I’m looking for advice. For monitoring up/down status’ for core Cisco routers/switches my idea is to monitor snmp response and ping, but I don’t want to get 2 alerts from 1 device if it were to go down.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">So can I get ping or snmp alerts if they go down individually and only one alert if the device is down hard? What other services do you recommend monitoring for up/down status besides ping?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Or is ping sufficient enough in your opinion? I may configure text alerts only on ping and maybe just email alerts for snmp, or no alerts for snmp. I like seeing uptime in Nagios though, it makes it easy to see if any devices have just rebooted after an event.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I continue to research every day but I am interested in your thoughts and opinions if you’d like to share.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oh, can I integrate Nagios with my Cacti? Sorry for all the questions but will be very grateful for any responses.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks all very much,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Will</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Will Bashlor [mailto:wbashlor@<a href="http://atcnetworks.net"><span style="color:purple">atcnetworks.net</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, October 20, 2012 11:23 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Nagios Users List<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[Nagios-users] Monitor Cisco Uptime</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi list,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’ve searched to no avail, this is a basic question with hopefully a simple answer.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m a long time cacti user (windows), I know basic Linux knowledge, new to Nagios. I have a fresh install of Debian stable (squeeze) with apt-get installed Webmin, ssh, apache2, and Nagios 3.2.1, nagiosql, and whatever dependencies. I am trying to setup monitoring of our core Cisco routers and switches. I have configured 2 services, ping and uptime. Ping works great of course but I can’t get a valid response from check_snmp for uptime. Here’s the command I’ve tried from the command line:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">root@atcdeb01:/# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp -H x.x.x.x -C public -o sysUpTime.0</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">no output, it just hangs</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’ve also tried</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">root@atcdeb01:/# /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c public x.x.x.x sysUpTime.0</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">sysUpTime.0: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> sysUpTime)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Obviously with the correct IP and community string</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If I try this I get:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">root@atcdeb01:/# /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c public x.x.x.x 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 = Timeticks: (447923619) 51 days, 20:13:56.19</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">So using OID names aren’t working. I’ve researched with not much luck.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">From here and various other sites I’ve tried…</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/SNMP"><span style="color:purple">http://wiki.debian.org/SNMP</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Added “deb<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian"><span style="color:purple">http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>squeeze main contrib non-free” to /etc/apt/sources.list</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">apt-get update</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Then apt-get install snmp-mibs-downloader</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Then “download-mibs”. Restart snmp.</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">All to no avail. What am I doing wrong? Is there a simple guide I can use so check_snmp works with oid names for Cisco and other devices?</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for any help you can provide.</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">-Will</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><pre> <o:p></o:p></pre><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Everyone hates slow websites. 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