Up.time V5.1: Snmp Walk Plugin Monitor

by Apr 15, 2009

The SNMP Walk plugin Monitor

PURPOSE

The purpose of this monitor is to gather the values of the snmp oid tree so you can report and monitor on what it returns.
DESCRIPTION
This monitor collects the values of a snmp oid’s tree and calculates the delta between the current and previous and values.
REQUIREMENTS
Monitoring station
Up.time v5.1 or greater

INSTALLATION
Windows
1. Place the MonitorSnmpWalkv2.jar in the / core folder
2. Place the MonitorSnmpWalkv2.xml in the / xml folder
3. Load the monitor using erdcloader

> cd / scripts
> erdcloader –x / xml / MonitorSnmpWalkv2.xml
4. Restart the core
> net stop “up.time data collector”
> net start “up.time data collector”
This will add the plug-in monitor to the up.time interface (specifically, the Advanced Monitors section of the Add Service Monitor page).

UNIX
1. Place the MonitorSnmpWalkv2.jar in the / core folder
Place the MonitorSnmpWalkv2.xml in the / xml folder
2. Load the monitor using erdcloader

# cd
# scripts/erdcloader –x / xml / MonitorSnmpWalkv2.xml
3. Add the jar to the uptime.lax file to by modifying this variable:
lax.class.path= MonitorSnmpWalkv2.jar:core/serializer…etc
4. Restart the core
# /etc/init.d/uptime_core stop
# /etc/init.d/uptime_core start

CONFIGURING THE MONITOR IN UP.TIME
The following configuration settings need to be set when creating a service instance based on this plug-in monitor:
SNMP Version – Define Version of snmp v1,v2,v3
Community – The SNMP community for authentication v2 and v3
SNMP Port – the snmp port that the device is listening on
Agent UserName (v3 only) – MD5 or SHA
Privacy Type (v3 only): DES or AES
Authentication (V3 only)
Value:
This is a ranged value (multiple result sets from the oid tree) of the delta of 2 values (previous and current value)

CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES:
This configuration is used on a Windows-based monitoring station.
OID
0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.
The oid of the tree that you are gathering results for.