Brocade Fibre Channel templates.

[ScOp3]

Yup there is a CDEF function for RX and TX Words. I included it in my modified template to be found somewhere in the thread.
As we kicked out the Brocade's for some MacData i have no need for this template anymore. So if anyone feels the urge to maintain i guess a lot ppl will be happy.

ScOp3

[sam33]

do you have a complete example of rrdtool in the scriptshell language.

I don't now the language XML.

[royce]

Try the rrdtool docs. It's all documented how everything works.

Christofer

[ajeffco]

I've got this working so far, with a few oddities on a few Brocade switches. I'm curious though, when creating the graphs for the devices, what I should be selecting for "Data Source [Summary of RX & TX Word]"?

I tried "Translate Brocade words into Bytes", and it gave some funky results. So then I tried "None" on another graph, and it looked more reasonable based on what I saw earlier in this post on how Throughput is derived from TX and RX words.

What's the correct choice?

Al

[ajeffco]

[nsx-animal]

I am still getting this error. The brocade_interfaces.xml file is there with the correct rights. I don't get it. I am running Version 0.8.6j

Data Query Debug Information
+ Running data query [16].
+ Found type = '3' [snmp query].
+ Could not find data query XML file at '/var/www/html/cacti/resource/snmp_queries/brocade_interfaces.xml'
+ Error parsing XML file into an array.
+ Could not find data query XML file at '/var/www/html/cacti/resource/snmp_queries/brocade_interfaces.xml'
+ Could not find data query XML file at '/var/www/html/cacti/resource/snmp_queries/brocade_interfaces.xml'
+ Could not find data query XML file at '/var/www/html/cacti/resource/snmp_queries/brocade_interfaces.xml'

[nbourbon]

Hi all,

I'm trying to monitor trafic on brocade switchs using cacti but I get wrong values for trafic over 54 MBytes/second.
I think it's normal because we are using 32 bits SNMP counters so with a 300 seconds step we should have :

((2^37)-1)/((2^23)*300) = 54,61 MBytes/second

Is this correct ?
Does anyone solved this issue ?

Best regards,
Nicolas

[TechMason]

I am new to Cacti so please excuse my ignorance.
I followed the instructions to add the newest Brocade Fibre Channel Template posted by ScOp3 on Wed Sep 21, 2005.
Unfortunately I can't graph any port stats as I get a message stating:

[gandalf]

Which version of everything?
Reinhard

[TechMason]

I think I have bigger problems as I can't seem to get any index values from any of the other devices that I previously had. I will post to a more general troubleshooting Forum.

Cacti Version 0.8.6h
PHP Version 4.4.0
Apache/2.0.54

What other versions would I need?

[boydbria]

Forgive me but I'm a total cacti newb.

Cacti Version 0.8.6i
Apache2
PHP 4.4.4-8+etch2 (using debian if it matters)

I can't seem to get the port numbers on my brocades to display properly.
I followed the directions earlier in this thread.
For example
I'm seeing ports 1-16, 1-32
when i should see 0-15, 0-31
These are all brocade 16 or 32 port 4gb switches.

I'm probably missing something really stupid, but I was banging my head this morning and it shouldn't be this hard on a Friday.

[farnsworth]

Hello,
I'm trying to import the template cacti_host_template_brocade_fc_switch.xml but I encounter the following message in the web gui:

[jus]

Hi,

Anybody else with the problem, that brocade FC switches stop communicating SNMP with the cacti poller?

I start with one switch (64 ports), add another - for a while it works fine and then I get SNMP error when I look into the Device (where I define Hostname/description etc).

It's the VirtualMachine appliance freshly downloaded from rpath. No big thing in performance analysis of the VM - no swapping whatever, the win$ host with the VMWare Server is not very busy as well.

Log is talking about 4 hosts, 1557 DataSources, RRDs processed 149

When it should be a perf_prob, this would be no good - the final plan is to monitor several thousands of switchports........

Thnx for reading

JUS

[gandalf]

At least with a dedicated server, your target size should not be that problem. Are you using cactid? Are you using SNMP V2? What is given at Settings -> Poller -> The Maximum SNMP OID's Per SNMP Get Request? You may want to reduce this value step by step.
Reinhard

[jus]