Category: Cacti

Cacti Device Templates for CheckPoint R81.10

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I desperately need to get some graphs on connections for Checkpoint after being unable to activate the monitoring blade for a cloud deployment with a PAYG license. Good ol’ Cacti was the quickest way to do accomplish that.

Sample graphs:

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Monitoring CPU & Memory in IOS-XE

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One important thing to understanding in IOS-XE is the different numbers that can be returned when checking CPU and memory statistics.  There’s some very down in the weeds docs on this, but the simplest way to break it down is process vs. platform.  Processes is essentially control plane, while platform is data plane.

CPU

Processor CPU

CLI command: show processes cpu

SNMP OIDs:

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.56.0 = 5 second
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.57.0 = 1 minute
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.58.0 = 5 minute

Platform CPU

CLI command: show processes cpu platform

SNMP OIDs:

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.3.7 = 5 second
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.4.7 = 1 minute
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.5.7 = 5 minute

Note – Most platforms will be multi-core.

Memory

Processor Memory

CLI command: show processes memory

SNMP OIDs:

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.48.1.1.1.5.1 = Memory Used
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.48.1.1.1.6.1 = Memory Free

Platform Memory

CLI command: show platform resources

SNMP OIDs:

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.12.7 = Memory Used
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.13.7 = Memory Free
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.27.7 = Memory Committed

Cacti Templates

These were written for Cacti 0.8.8f

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Cacti 1.0 to 1.1 upgrade: MySQL TimeZone Database is not populated

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Give the cacti user permission to read the internal MySQL table for time zone names:

[j5@linux ~]$ mysql -u root -p mysql
mysql> grant select on mysql.time_zone_name to cactiuser@'%';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> quit

To populate MySQL with some Timezone information:

[j5@linux ~]$ mysql -u root -p mysql < /usr/share/mysql/mysql_test_data_timezone.sql 
Enter password:

Now there’s at least some stuff there:

mysql> select * from time_zone_name;
+--------------------+--------------+
| Name | Time_zone_id |
+--------------------+--------------+
| MET | 1 |
| UTC | 2 |
| Universal | 2 |
| Europe/Moscow | 3 |
| leap/Europe/Moscow | 4 |
| Japan | 5 |
+--------------------+--------------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)