[sllug-members]: Cisco 678 & snmp

[Jeremiah Roth]

On Apr 22, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Marc Christensen wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if any of you have set up and use any type of  
> monitoring software like MRTG or something similar with a Cisco 678  
> DSL modem.
>
> I'm interested in what would you recommend for monitoring software  
> and any tips for configuration you might have.

If all you want is graphing (performance data) I'd recommend Cacti.   
It's certainly not the most intuitive to configure, but there are some  
Cisco templates that will get you started out the door.  The graphs  
are prettier than MRTG too :)

Nagios works well for alerting you when your modem has reached certain  
thresholds - if nagios has some graphing capabilities I haven't seen  
them (I mostly use Groundworks which is a great front-end to Nagios  
and is a lot easier to manage when you have hundreds of hosts and  
services to monitor).

Something I've started using recently is Zabbix (http:// 
www.zabbix.com), which does both performance graphing and threshold  
alerting.  It's still a fairly young project, but it's being actively  
developed and has been stable for me so far.  Zabbix prefers to use  
agents installed on the target, but it can also use SNMP (as well as  
do http, ftp, etc checking like nagios).  Any metric can be graphed,  
so if it's available by SNMP on the Cisco you can graph it (same with  
Cacti, but Zabbix makes it much easier).

-Jeremiah