Nortel Baystack/Passport?

scroger2 · Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Plymouth, NH USA

Greetings everyone,

I apologize for this blanket request, but ....

I am new to monitoring and newer to Cacti, which I totally love. Are there any Nortel users out there that might be interested in sharing templates and/or scripts that I might not be even aware of? I am looking primarily at items specifically for traffic/bandwith/utilization/etc for the Passport 8600,8300,1600, and Baystack470.

Thank you
Roger (uber newbie)

warnesj · Cacti User Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 163

We run some Nortel switches, Baystack 450's, 470's, 420's, BPS 2000's, 5510's, 5520's and PP8600's too. We just used the standard Cacti Interface that came with the "Generic SNMP-enabled Host" template without any problems. I did write some custom stuff for the 8600 though to get the CPU & backplane utilization and temperature. I don't have those exported into templates though but I'll export them tommorow and post them for ya if you're interested.

One thing to also note is that for any gigabit port, make sure your use the 64-bit counters (it's an option when you're creating your graphs for each interface) otherwise you may not get acurate traffic stats.

scroger2 · Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Plymouth, NH USA

That would be incredible. I am always interested to see what sites are doing with equipment similiar to mine. There are so many great things out there and I have but itched the surface.

I would have never thought about the 64-bit counter for the gig ports and that for certain would have bit me.

Please post here or directly with the contact info attached.
Thank you so very much.

Howie · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:53 am Post subject: Re: Nortel Baystack/Passport?

warnesj · Cacti User Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 163

I've attached the templates for the Nortel Passport 8600 I'm using to graph,

CPU Utilization
Buffer Utilization
Switch Fabric Utilization
Temperature

NOTE:The temperature is in degrees Celsius.

Ther are probably other things that the 8600 (or the other devices) offer for information, but those were the ones I was interested in.

All you need to do is import all the data and graph templates and then select the device in your Cacti console. Then in the "Associated Graph Templates" section just add the new graph templates. Cacti should autocreate the required data sources. The graphs may not show up right away, you'll need to wait for Cacti to poll the devices.

mikefrank1098 · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 4

Please see my post http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=15787

MikeP · Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 14 Location: Elgin, Illinois

I am trying to import these templates and I ge the error "Error: XML: Hash version does not exist", any ideas? I am running Cacti V0.8.6g.

Thanks,

Mike P

warnesj · Cacti User Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 163

My templates were exported from Cacti 0.8.6h, so that's the problem. You'll need to upgrade to the latest Cacti. Sorry man.

duongchu · Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 2 Location: Sunnyvale, CA USA

warnesj: do you know similar oid's for Nortel baystack 5510?

warnesj · Cacti User Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 163

moe_szyslak · Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 46 Location: Germany

Has anyone experience with the memory monitoring of a 8600 ? I got only 0% utilization at my queries.

after310 · Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 26 Location: France (Toulouse)

Hi

This thread interest me!

I'm searching OID to get CPU load and RAM free and temperatures on a Nortel 425 and 5520.

I can't find these informations

after310 · Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 26 Location: France (Toulouse)

after310 · Joined: 22 Jul 2008 Posts: 26 Location: France (Toulouse)