Very basic QLogic SANBox 5000 Series (5xxx) snmp query

[dalaro]

Uses Fibre Alliance MIB. Only handles input and output octets; no errors, no temperature readings, just traffic bytes.

See this post for background.

[gheppner]

Wow, this is incredibly useful. I'm trying to get stats out of some Hewlet Packard Virtual Connect FC Modules that use these same mibs. I've done up some based on the FE-Elements mib (32 bit counters only) that record error stats. Youu can't get bandwidth from that MIB because it only provides frames and not words, so this is truly great.

I'll post any updates to this template within this thread once i've had a chance to change my templates and queries over to use the 64 bit versions.

[toe_cutter]

Here's an updated xml.
Lists Index, Port, Portname, Portspeed and gets:
Elements, Class1,2,3 Frames, Class3 Discards, Link Resets, Link Failures, Invalid Words and Loss of Synchronization.
Might add sensors at some point.

Tho i only poll the Elements, but the rest will be interesting once i get spine0.8.7c installed (im loosing some hex-digits at times in the poll causing the graph to jump to ~60Petabytes/s, which i hope is spines fault :/).

[dalaro]

Thanks for the feedback and update.

I wrote that this query loses precision when run on 32-bit Cacti servers (cf 64-bit), but I think I was wrong. I *think* Cacti servers running in both 32-bit and 64-bit OSes maintain full precision in measurement. Edited original post.

[jussiu]

Hi,

I am a very new cacti user. My main mission is to get our sanbox units graphed, since the qlogic software we have doe snot work with the newest firmware. I have managed to get graphing to work on our basic switches and firewalls, but I am not getting this sanbox query to work. This might very well be because I really don't know what I am doing to well, so could you please just post a short "how to get this query to graph" tutorial?

I am running cacti 0.8.7d on RHEL 5.2.

What I have managed by trial and error:

I created a new data query that uses fca_san.xml, is of type "Get SNMP Data (Indexed)" and has a Graph template associated. The Graph template is called SanTraffic, and is based on Interface-Traffic (bits/sec). Datasources are traffic_in: connUnitPortStatCountRxElements and traffic_out: connUnitPortStatCountTxElements.

I have set up a sanbox unit as a device, and associated the dataquery with it. A verbose query on the device returns a lot of data and no errors. I just can't seem to make cacti actually poll the SanBox units, all the grapsh I have associated with the datasources say that there are no .rrd files.

I know this is all probably pretty basic, I just couldn't figure it out by reading the documentation myself. Thanks for your help in advance.

/jussi

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[jussiu]

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[toe_cutter]

Sorry i missed my monday "deadline". But i got unsure about posting these templates/data queries since i use it on our McData SAN-switches and not Qlogic.
I DO know it doesnt work on Brocade, but theres already a good dataquery/template for them here

So to test if it works for you and your san-switches, snmpwalk this (portindex oid): 1.3.6.1.2.1.8888.1.3.1.1.1
If it doesnt work, use my earlier dataquery.

The main difference is that this data query uses

[five0.4tluv]

I've stumbled onto this as I've got some 5200 and 5600 switches. I am using the 179 version of the data query. I had to manually create the rrd files and I've got empty graphs. the rrds are being updated with 0 values. Is there more to this that I'm missing.

[djpetro]