How to monitor Cisco Switchs/Routers by Insight manager

[aguang]

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

[Steve Kadish]

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

[aguang]

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

[Steve Kadish]

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

[aguang]

HI,Guy,

Thanks a lot and that link is really helpful!

Thanks
Aguang