Re: Counting OIDs

cricket can be configured to call scripts. (ds-source exec)

a hack might be to use an expect script to login to the cmts, run the
necessary command. I guess some awk and grep and friends could be used
to parse the result to produce a single number returned - which is what
cricket understands.

hth.

jamie

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 07:35, Robert Westendorp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a CMTS that is DOCIS compliant. Here's the problem.
> 
> I want to count the number of connected modems, problem is that there is no
> OID that covers this. There is an overall modem table, but no total and each
> modem has it's own table.  It seems totals from the CMTS command line are
> generated by looking at each modem table and counting how many modems are
> connected to each channel.
> 
> I'm not too worried about the number of modems per chennl, just an overall
> total... so is there a way to count the number of OIDs at at particular
> level? I could then use that as the total connected modems.
> 
> Any help would be great.
> Thanks.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Robert Westendorp

Manual Poll OK - Collector Poll Returns U

Hello,
   I have an issue where polling from crontab running 'collect-subtrees normal' returns U data yet when I run
collector manually for the subtree it returns data ok. 
   Data sources ds10-ds21 all return U yet when run manually they report back results everytime. The data for
those sources are retrieved via a script (EXEC
   datasource type). If I remove this subtree from subtree-sets and run the command every 5 minutes it
populates the rrd file with the retrieved data.

   Anyone have any ideas?

   cricket version 1.0.4 running on Solaris9

----SNIP FROM CRICKET LOG-----
[01-Oct-2004 11:55:04 ] Retrieving data (EXEC:
/export/home/cricket/cricket-config/../cricket/util/dns-snmp.pl servername community
1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.8.1.101.2) for servername
[01-Oct-2004 11:55:04 ] Retrieved data for servername (2): 0.02,0.03,0.04,1,2,97,1455,148,1554147467,185063919,U,U,U,U,U,U,U,U,U,U,U,U
[01-Oct-2004 11:55:04 ] Some data is missing for servername (2).

----COLLECTOR RUN MANUALLY----
[cricket <at> cricket:cricket-logs]$  ~/cricket/collector /systemperf -loglevel debug
[01-Oct-2004 11:57:57 ] Log level changed from warn to debug.
[01-Oct-2004 11:57:57 ] Starting collector: Cricket version 1.0.4 (2003-11-22)

[01-Oct-2004 11:57:58 ] target servername
        auto-base = /export/home/cricket/cricket-config
        auto-root = /..
        auto-target-path = /systemperf
        datadir = /export/home/cricket/cricket-config/../cricket-data//systemperf
        directory-desc = Server load, CPU, DNS queries/failues

Failed to get dslist from view name

Re: Manual Poll OK - Collector Poll Returns U

Steve Carr wrote:

>   I have an issue where polling from crontab running 'collect-subtrees normal' returns U data yet when I run
collector manually for the subtree it returns data ok.
>  
>

Typically, the cause of "works from shell but not cron" problems is 
environment - $PATH or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some such.  Remember jobs run 
from cron have almost no environment set!

(This is a UNIX thing rather than a cricket thing - true of any UNIX 
cron jobs.)

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Cricket alert via ports

Re: Manual Poll OK - Collector Poll Returns U

Thanks for the reply. I guess I should have mentioned I am polling 1008 targets from the cron job: 
(0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * $HOME/cricket/collect-subtrees normal)
..and I am only having a problem with those 12 targets.

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory Bond <gnb <at> itga.com.au>
Date: Sunday, October 3, 2004 5:14 pm
Subject: Re: [cricket-users] Manual Poll OK - Collector Poll Returns U

> Steve Carr wrote:
> 
> >   I have an issue where polling from crontab running 'collect-
> subtrees normal' returns U data yet when I run collector manually 
> for the subtree it returns data ok.
> >  
> >
> 
> Typically, the cause of "works from shell but not cron" problems is 
> environment - $PATH or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some such.  Remember 
> jobs run 
> from cron have almost no environment set!
> 
> (This is a UNIX thing rather than a cricket thing - true of any 
> UNIX 
> cron jobs.)
> 
> 

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Re: Cricket alert via ports

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 17:18 +1200, Jack A. Kanimea wrote:
> Hello,
>        This is my problem. Am trying to develop program to alert if a
> port on a ip is down for a period of time at same time have a report
> mechanism.  
>  
> I know this can be done using nmap .. but filter ing has to be done ..
> etc Haven't done this yet but it just a idea  
>  
>  Has anyone tried this using cricket via alerts of ports or if know of
> any free tools. Any ideas on this would greatly appreciated.
>  
> Thanks
> Jack K 
I use OpenNMS and Cricket, basically between the two, I can collect data
from anything and monitor almost anything. OpenNMS notification and
escalation model is rather nice. Plus you can take rrd's generated by
Cricket and have them display in OpenNMS.

Ted

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Re: Manual Poll OK - Collector Poll Returns U

Gregory,
    Rechecked my perl script and sure enough no path to snmpget. Thanks for your insight. 

steve

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Carr <steven <at> shaw.ca>
Date: Monday, October 4, 2004 8:10 am
Subject: Re: [cricket-users] Manual Poll OK - Collector Poll Returns U

> Thanks for the reply. I guess I should have mentioned I am polling 
> 1008 targets from the cron job: 
> (0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * $HOME/cricket/collect-
> subtrees normal)
> ..and I am only having a problem with those 12 targets.
> 
> Steve
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gregory Bond <gnb <at> itga.com.au>
> Date: Sunday, October 3, 2004 5:14 pm
> Subject: Re: [cricket-users] Manual Poll OK - Collector Poll 
> Returns U
> 
> > Steve Carr wrote:
> > 
> > >   I have an issue where polling from crontab running 'collect-
> > subtrees normal' returns U data yet when I run collector 
> manually 
> > for the subtree it returns data ok.
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > Typically, the cause of "works from shell but not cron" problems 
> is 
> > environment - $PATH or $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some such.  Remember 
> > jobs run 
> > from cron have almost no environment set!
> > 
> > (This is a UNIX thing rather than a cricket thing - true of any 
> > UNIX 
> > cron jobs.)
> > 
> > 
> 

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Possible to create mtarget on 2 mtargets? / aggregate diff target-types

Hi ,

I've several network caches that I'm monitoring currently using cricket. However, I've used 2 different
target-type to poll their bw different. 

I read that it's not possible to do a mtarget of all the caches since the target-type is different, and i've 2
different mtargets, one for each target-type. 

Is it possible for me to do a mtarget of the 2 mtargets to get the consolidated bandwidth?
If it's not possible, any suggestions to aggregate diff target-types to a single graph?

Thanks,
Suetlin 

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Getting Cricket to work with Cisco Switches