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Alvarion equipment with WM 0.91

 
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vabb



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:57 pm    Post subject: Alvarion equipment with WM 0.91 Reply with quote

Our office is attempting to implement Cacti with the Weathermap 0.91 plugin. The Weathermap seems to work fine with our switches, routers, etc. We can see the traffic loading and the maps look great. However, our network uses Alvarion equipment to carry voice and data services to our customers. For some reason we can't get the Weathermap to show any link data from this equipment.

Alvarion equipment produces 2 inputs and 2 outputs and we think this is confusing the Weathermap plugin.

Has anyone successfully managed to connect Cacti's Weathermap plugin function with Alvarion equipment?

Any help, suggestions, or options would be helpful.
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Howie
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Alvarion equipment with WM 0.91 Reply with quote

vabb wrote:
Our office is attempting to implement Cacti with the Weathermap 0.91 plugin. The Weathermap seems to work fine with our switches, routers, etc. We can see the traffic loading and the maps look great. However, our network uses Alvarion equipment to carry voice and data services to our customers. For some reason we can't get the Weathermap to show any link data from this equipment.

Alvarion equipment produces 2 inputs and 2 outputs and we think this is confusing the Weathermap plugin.

Has anyone successfully managed to connect Cacti's Weathermap plugin function with Alvarion equipment?

Any help, suggestions, or options would be helpful.


Sounds like the rrd DS names are different from the standard Cacti interface stats. In Cacti, go to Data Sources and pick one of your Alvarion data source. Look for the sections that start "Data Source Item Fields [something]". Well, the 'something' is the DS name for that data item. In Weathermap you need to specify these, if they are different from the defaults (traffic_in and traffic_out):
Code:

TARGET  myrrdfile.rrd:indsname:outdsname


If you look in the cacti.log, it is probably already warning you that the DS names are incorrect, by the way. The logs are useful

Next problem you might face is that the MIBs are different, and aren't byte-counters but something else. You might need to add 'gauge:' to the front:
Code:

TARGET  gauge:myrrdfile.rrd:indsname:outdsname

You can tell if this is a problem, because your values will all be out by about 10-fold (actually 8-fold).
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