topic How to monitor Cisco Switchs/Routers by Insight manager in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

How to monitor Cisco Switchs/Routers by Insight manager

aguang — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:54:12 GMT

Hi, All,

Does anyone know, in order to monitor a Cisco Router/Switch via Insight Manager, what steps need to be taken?

Thanks for your help in advance
Best Regards
Aguang

Re: How to monitor Cisco Switchs/Routers by Insight manager

Steve Kadish — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:20:16 GMT

Hello,

It depends what you want to monitor. If you are only looking for standard SNMP MIB alerts (link up/down, cold/warm boot, neighbor loss, and authentication), then you can just add the Cisco devices as managed systems and configure them to send snmp traps to the Insight Manager server.

If you want to get Cisco-specific traps, however, you will need to compile the Cisco MIBs for your IOS images. This can be a laborious process. There have been several threads about it in this forum, which you probably want to look through.

Good luck,
- Steve

Re: How to monitor Cisco Switchs/Routers by Insight manager

aguang — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:44:55 GMT

Hi, guy,

Thanks a lot and we only need the basic SNMP traps (like up/down...)
Do you know any link that I can access to know how to configure the SNMP function for Cisc Router/Switch.

Thanks a lot
Aguang

Re: How to monitor Cisco Switchs/Routers by Insight manager

Steve Kadish — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:26:13 GMT

Hi,

The Cisco SNMP main page is at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/tk605/tech_protocol_home.html

Assuming that all your switches are running IOS (not CATOS), the most basic commands you need for both your switches and routers are:

snmp-server community public RO
snmp-server enable traps snmp
snmp-server host public snmp

You may want to change the read-only community from the default of "public" if you are concerned about security.

Suddenly, this is a Cisco forum... :-)

Later,
- Steve

Re: How to monitor Cisco Switchs/Routers by Insight manager

aguang — Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:30:25 GMT

HI,Guy,

Thanks a lot and that link is really helpful!

Thanks
Aguang