[c-nsp] MIBs for Processor and Memory utilization?

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

At 9:33 PM +0200 8/26/05, Michael Markstaller wrote:
>Now, in my eyes snmp object navigator for finding which MIBs are 
>supported is good for nothing else than getting confused.. plenty 
>platforms and versions are permanently missing and stuff is 
>completely wrong;
>
>just checked a few things:
>12.4(x): no 1712 platform, I'm running it, so it is there
>12.3(14T) on 1712 supports ADSL-DMT-LINE-MIB - fine but this box has no ADSL..
>IMHO walking the real platform with the MIB's I'm interested in put 
>into the mibs folder is much more efficient ;) just have to take 
>into account 10% of the boxes might reload doing a full snmpwalk..
>
>But to not only spit around, all in all Cisco's SNMP-support is 
>*very* wide & ages better than any other device I know about; 
>although there're broken mibs in all releases (I wonder when they'll 
>fix the IPsec Bytes in/out counters again, they're broken since some 
>12.3-release)
>
>Michael


We face, I suspect, the problem of a bad speller being told to use a 
dictionary to find the spelling of a word we cannot spell. Still, it 
wasn't as bad as being told "go find a book on the subject" when I 
was the network architect at the Library of Congress. :-)

>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: McLean Pickett [mailto:McLean.Pickett at ptgcorp.com]
>>  Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:14 PM
>>  To: Michael Markstaller; Howard C. Berkowitz;
>>  cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>  Subject: RE: [c-nsp] MIBs for Processor and Memory utilization?
>>
>>
>>  The SNMP Object Navigator is supposed to be able to tell you what MIBS
>>  are working on your device. It allows you to search for supported MIBS
>>  based on ios image file name - THOUGH it doesn't support any
>>  of the new
>>  ISR's (1800,2800,3800) so its not helping me.
>>
>>  -McLean
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>>  [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Michael
>>  Markstaller
>>  Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 3:03 PM
>>  To: Howard C. Berkowitz; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>  Subject: RE: [c-nsp] MIBs for Processor and Memory utilization?
>>
>>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  > From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>>  > [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Howard C.
>>  > Berkowitz
>>  > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 6:17 PM
>>  > To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>  > Subject: [c-nsp] MIBs for Processor and Memory utilization?
>>  >
>>  > First, is there any way to view the Cisco MIB library
>>  directly, rather
>>
>>  > than pulling down the .my files and running them through a compiler?
>>
>>  Now, not really.. the main problem is, you don't know/see
>>  what mibs are
>>  indeed working on your devices..
>>  Pull down the MIBs and walk a (non-production!!) router with
>>  snmpwalk -m
>>  ALL enterprises on some linux box; it's the easiest way to find what I
>>  need for me.
>>
>>  > If not, I'd appreciate pointers to the appropriate MIBs or
>>  OIDs that
>>  > break processor and memory utilization. I'm trying to put together
>>  > some procedures about comparing and contrasting internal effects of
>>  > router exploits, with the external effects measured (at the
>>  > surveillance level) with NetFlow.
>>  >
>>  > My particular lab uses 26yyXM routers, although if there
>>  are platform
>>  > specific MIBs, as with distributed switching, I'd
>>  appreciate a pointer
>>
>>  > there as well.
>>
>>  Here's what we use for monitoring on 17xx - 72xx, some things like
>>  mem-OID's vary by  platform & IOS but walking parents should give you
>>  what you need:
>>
>>  ciscoMemoryPoolMIB
>>  Process-mem free .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.48.1.1.1.6.1 IO-mem free
>>  .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.48.1.1.1.6.2
>>
>>  OLD-CISCO-SYS-MIB
>>  CPU avgBusy1 minute .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.57.0 CPU avgBusy5 minute
>>  .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0
>>
>>
>>  Michael
>>
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