SNMP Metrics for Services

[Alejandro Calbazana]

Hello,

Has anyone done anything with the SNMP metrics for services (the tactical package)? 

I'm looking for ideas on how one might create a dashboard of some sort using monitoring tools (Solarwinds).  If there are other usages of these kinds of metrics, that would be good to know as well. 

I understand how to get the SNMP info, need some inspiration on using them.

Thanks,

Alejandro

[Dennis Melis]

Hi Alejandro,

We tried to use SNMP to create a custom dashboard for policies. The difficulty for us was that every policy gets a unique SNMP OID. So every time you create a new policy you'll get another OID to monitor and you'll have to edit your dashboard. That is, with our snmp monitoring software it was not possible to dynamically loop over a parent OID.
We still use SNMP for the other stuf; CPU, Diskspace, etc.

Now I'm trying to send the logging offsite. I'm using the Audit Sink policy to send a message to a Elasticsearch instance. In addition we installed Grafana to visualize this logging. It already looks great, but we're still developing.

Hope this helps a bit

Regards,
Dennis

[Geethu John]

Hi @Dennis Melis

Are you able to retrieve CPU, Diskspace, etc. using tactical agent? if yes, may i know what is the OID for those system metrics, if we use tactical agent?

Geethu​

[Dennis Melis]

Hello John Geethu,

We use the following OIDs (including the snmpwalk commands):

Disk total (in kbytes)

snmpwalk -c config2911 -Cc -v 2c 127.0.0.1 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9.1.6.1

 

disk total = 8256952 ~8 GB

 

Disk available (in kbytes)

snmpwalk -c config2911 -Cc -v 2c 127.0.0.1 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9.1.7.1

 

disk available = 5172652 ~ 5GB

 

DISK Warning at 819200 and critical at 409600

 

1-minute system load

snmpwalk -c config2911 -Cc -v 2c 127.0.0.1 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.10.1.3.1

 

range 0.00 - 1.00.

Warning at 0.9 en critical at 0.95

 

5-minute system load

snmpwalk -c config2911 -Cc -v 2c 127.0.0.1 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.10.1.3.2

 

range 0.00 - 1.00.

LOAD Warning at 0.9 and critical at 0.95

 

15-minute system load

snmpwalk -c config2911 -Cc -v 2c 127.0.0.1 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.10.1.3.3

 

range 0.00 - 1.00.

Warning at 0.9 and critical at 0.95

 

Memory total swap

snmpwalk -c config2911 -Cc -v 2c 127.0.0.1 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.3.0

 

2097148 kb ~ 2 GB

 

Memory available swap (in kbytes)

snmpwalk -c config2911 -Cc -v 2c 127.0.0.1 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.4.4.0

 

1779544 Kb ~ 1,7 GB

Dennis