Problems with MACTrack

apperrault · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject: Problems with MACTrack

Hey Witness,
Thanks for the patch for the SVN version of MACTrack. I am now having a problem getting the system to add the MAC Addresses for my devices to the DB.

I have one Cisco 6509 Switch with a SupII router card in it. I have added that device type to the system as a Switch/Router with an OID of .1.3.6.1.4.1.9 and a sysDescription of c6sup2_rp-JK2S-M, both of which i am pretty sure are correct.

When i run

apperrault · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject:

Apparently, the system thinks i have uploaded too much, so i am unable to upload the log. If someone wants, I can PM it to them.

thanks

aaron

TheWitness · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject:

Resync your SVN and try again. Post your results.

TheWitness

apperrault · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:07 am Post subject:

Hey Witness,
Thanks for the update. Now i am no longer getting the errors, but i still cannot get the data to transfer to the DB. Actually, let me correct that, it looks like it is getting into the DB but i have no way of seeing it. I am attaching a couple of Screen Shots for your review. One is a screenshot of what MySQL Admin says. It looks like it sees 344 interfaces, and 280 IPs. I did notice something odd this morning. I have created 1 device in Mac Track, and added it to my 1 site, Emeryville, and that looks correct on the device setup, but when i am on the console and click on Sites, I see Emeryville, but no devices associated with it.

Am i missing something?

thanks

app

TheWitness · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:02 am Post subject:

Post a screen shot of the device edit. Also, run the macktrack poller from the command line like this and post your output.

apperrault · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:53 am Post subject:

Hey Witness,
Here is a screenshot of the Device page for the device i have setup. I setup the site before i setup the device.

Also, running

TheWitness · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:

Try the "mactrack_scanner.php --help" and then, I think if you review the usage, it will be:

apperrault · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject:

OK, I will try running that and see what happens. I think that there may be some sort of problem with my Cacti installation. Nothing, with the exception of Discover, that is supposed to run after the poller runs, is running. Uptime doesn't run, i cannot get Mac Track to run. Something is very odd here.

I will let you know what happens when i can log back onto the system and run those commands.

app

apperrault · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject:

OK, here is an update on the problems with MAC Track. I got it to run and add the data to the DB. Don't ask me what i did, but it is working now.

Now, i added a new Device, a PIX firewall that holds the ARP cache for many of our network segments. I did a SNMPWalk and got the SysDescr and added the device type to MAC Track. I added it as a Router only, since it doesn't have any direct user ports. When i try and run a Discover, i get the following errors:

TheWitness · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:

Problem is that the PIX does not support the ARP table via snmp. You have to write a quick script to get it using SSH and then use that script instead of the standard arp function.

I will check into those error message and see what's up otherwise.

TheWitness