[c-nsp] open source vpn 3000 resource monitoring tools?

Alex Valentine alex at phataudio.org
Fri Jul 28 13:23:07 EDT 2006


The main resource I'm looking to monitor memory usage. We ran in to some
out of memory errors, so I would like to monitor memory usage via snmp
if possible. 

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 12:53 -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Alex Valentine wrote:
> 
> > Are there any open source tools that will monitor resources on a cisco
> > 3000 series vpn? I've used a check_snmp_mem  nagios plugin for our
> > routers, but it doesn't appear to work on the vpn concentrators.
> 
> What resources do you want to monitor?  Keep in mind that the VPN 3000 is 
> actually technology that Cisco acquired from Altiga several years ago, so 
> chances are that anything outside of normal MIB-II stuff will be in the 
> vendor-specific MIBs.  Those MIBs will likely use a vendor ID that is 
> different from Cisco's.
> 
> It's been awhile since I looked at the SNMP capabilities in the VPN 3000, 
> but if I get a chance to look at the MIBs, I can probably get you pointed 
> in the right direction.
> 
> jms



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