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

[Adel Abushaev]

Technically it's not exactly AXL, it's PerfMon. There are a few SOAP
service points on CUCM, one is AXL, which is for configuration, and
PerfMon is for performance counters. RTMT could give you a clue to
which counters you want to monitor. Some object names (like MOH server
name, etc) you could get from AXL. The data for the counters will get
from PerfMon.

Let me know if you need an example of PerfMon request handler in Perl,
it will definitely save your time since every character in that
request matters. PerfMon interface is poorly documented. AXL has the
best documentation among all others.

All services have WSDL files, though I have found that for Presence
and Unity they are severely obsolete.

Adel.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Dennis Heim <Dennis.Heim at cdw.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
> Dennis Heim
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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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