Adding support for Cisco

[Remco Landegge]

Hi,

Does any of you know how I can add support for Cisco devices to Compaq Insight Manager 7 (SP2). I'd like to monitor my Routers and Switches from the CIM7 console.

[Jens Boveng]

Hello!

I also have an interest in monitoring Cisco Routers, have been trying to import CISCO-MIBs without any luck. If you have any luck in this matter, please post how.

[David Hulse]

You need to get the SNMPv1 MIB files from Cisco's FTP site

ftp://ftp.cisco.com/pub/mibs/v1

The files need to be renamed to remove all the "-" characters, and to change the file suffix to .mib rather than .my. I found the easiest way to do this was to pipe the dir *.my command to Excel, and create a two-column old-name/new-name text file using find and replace. You then run this FOR command against it to rename the files.

FOR /F "tokens=1,2" %%i IN (list.txt) DO REN %%i %%j

where list.txt is the name of the text file you create.

Some of the MIBs need amending, mostly to do with the fact that the RFC1213-MIB file from Compaq performs most of the variable definitions from the Cisco IF-MIB, so any file trying to import variables from IF-MIB won't find them. Get that bit right and they should start compiling quite happily.

One other thing:- Don't use the OLD-*.my files unless you really need to. I found that importing those stopped other mibs from registering properly, and I had to strip everything out to the Compaq MIBs and start again.

[Abrar Khan_1]

Whats the best way to upload all of these MIBS?

[David Hulse]

The best way I found was to use the CIM7 console and do them one at a time. Sounds worse than it is, as you will find that most of the 500 or so MIB files Cisco provide aren't needed for your installation, so unless you have a wide variety of routers, switches, VPN concentrators, wireless basestations you will only have to upload a few. For example, our CIM7 has 59 Cisco MIB files loaded to monitor everything we need for our routers and switches.

[Abrar Khan_1]

How do I know what Mibs are for what products?

[David Hulse]

Big lists on the Cisco website. Some of the Cisco Press books also list which mibs monitor various functions within the model.

http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml

[Nadeem Ahmed_3]

David,

On the topic of loading Cisco MIBs I get this error whenever I am at the point of loading the MIB : CISCO-SMI-V1SMI.my

Error : 'csmi.mib' Failed Registration: 'Filecsmi.miberror: Error reading MIB: MIB node has no parent File: E:\HP\Insight Manager 7 SP2\compaq\protocol\snmp\mibs\csmi.mib Line: 51'

where 'csmi.mib' is CISCO-SMI-V1SMI.my

Any idea why. I am trying this on CIM7 SP2 and I am following Cisco's MIB load order?

Thanks
Nadeem