IronPort C10 Mail & Spam Appliance

[spoonman]

Appreciate it..........just evaluating one now..most likely will keep!

[eschoeller]

I have made a few changes to the templates and cleaned a few bits and pieces up. I'm posting the python script (unchanged) and the host template in this post. I use M1050/X1050 appliances so I made changes to reflect the differences when using this hardware. Here is a list of changes I made:

1. On the M1050/X1050 there is no CPU temperature, only ambient temperature. Having worked with Dell 2950's before I know this is the case from a hardware perspective (at least looking via OpenManage). The CPU OID still exists, but it's actually the Ambient temperature now. I changed this in the template and removed the CPU temperature completely.

2. I removed the 5 minute Cisco CPU graph/data template from the host template. These units do not provide this information via SNMP from what I can see.

3. I removed the "Legend Color" from the following:

Ironport Ambient Temp
Ironport CPU Usage
Ironport Disk I/O
Ironport Mail Transfer Threads
Ironport Memory Usage
Ironport Messages in Work Queue
Ironport Open Files/Sockets
Ironport Queue Util

I didn't really see a purpose behind selecting colors for each of these for every device you add. Now when you add a device, you are no longer prompted for color choices. It's easy enough to change these at the template level.

4. I renamed all the Graph Item Input Data Source names in the graph templates to have more meaningful names

5. I changed the Data Input Method "Check ESA" to "Check ESA (IronPort)" and changed the Input string to include "-u USERNAME" This is well documented in the script but I felt like including it by default, instead of encouraging people to use the Admin account. I strongly encourage anyone that's planning on using this to create a monitoring account with minimal privileges (guest works!)

6. The user who originally exported these templates had made modifications to the default Interface - Traffic graph templates. When importing this host template those changes came along with it (some sort of red line on the graphs). I created this host template with an un-modified Interface Traffic template so this change will not occur when importing the new host template.

I think that's about it. Please let me know if you experience any problems.

[gandalf]

[mlambie]

I've just deployed the new template and Python script with success.

It's 2AM here in Perth so I'm going to head to bed and when I wake up there'll be more pretty graphs to look at.

Thanks to everyone involved with these templates - it's very much appreciated.

[eschoeller]

Thanks for the feedback, and I hope you're getting some good data by now. Our appliances went into production on Tuesday so I now have some data to play with. I am considering creating some new graph templates that create a better summary of Bounces, Messages and Recipients. Currently I think there are too many individual graphs. I may just use the aggregate plugin to create these, but If not, I'll post my changes again.

[spoonman]

Hey Gninja...anyluck on gathering data on the S650?? I haven't looked much at it either? Thanks

[baxford]

Any progress on the S650 Web Appliance?

[gninja]

Sorry, been overwhelmed with other issues and the project for rolling that appliance out has been on the back burner. Once it's rolled out I'll make sure to get back and update those templates.