[cisco-voip] Needing to implement a monitoring solution in Afghanistan

[Dennis Heim]

Well for starters.. I would browse the the performance stats with RTMT.. and find the one or ones you want to monitor. Then you need to select on the monitoring platform you are going to use. Myself I have used nagios and cacti. From there there is an extension of AXL - CUCM API, that allows you to retrieve that information via XML/web service. From there you will be able to extract you data and make pretty graphs.

I did this for PRI utilization with nagios/cacti about 2 years ago. I had to learn enough PERL to be  able to get the data from AXL.

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From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Joseph Quigley
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 9:04 PM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] Needing to implement a monitoring solution in Afghanistan

Group,

I just move into a engineering level position supporting Cisco Voice for NATO forces in Afghanistan. On one of the networks, all traffic leaves the CCM clusters via ICTs, and there are several clusters throughout the country. As of now, there is no insight into the call volume over each ICT and I am wondering if anyone has ever implemented a solution that will give a collective overview of traffic between multiple clusters over ICTs.

As you can imagine, at some locations bandwidth is a premium - so that is one constraint. Another may be the acceptance of 3rd party software, but I'll cross that bridge - send any suggestions you may have.

The one thing that comes to mind is to aggregate performance monitor data of the H323 objects referencing the ICTs into a SQL database at a set interval - say 30secs, then somehow graph that live. It doesn't seem simple for my skillset, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel - time is not on my side.

I appreciate your suggestions!

Joe Quigley

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