Monitoring Untangle Routers Remotely?

[Agons]

Hello all,

I've been searching the great Google to answer this question.

 

:BackStory:

A friend has used Cacti, version 8.8 with a few no longer supported add-ons to monitor some Cisco hardware and windows machines on his work network. Mainly using SNMPv1 or v2c. Cacti is up to version 1.1.16 last I looked at it, sadly his add-ons no longer work.(Mainly a few additionally graphing pages like "Monitor")

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We have been doing some testing with Untangle, fun router OS. It has SNMP options but where we are falling short is figuring out how to monitor a network interface. Bits/sec Up/down, Bits total Up/Down. Is there a software out there that out of the box will monitor a Unix server via SNMP  for network interface data?

From what I can see it will require doing some changes to the untangles information it sends the server and the server will need to be prepared to accept the additional data. (Likely a software that has a per configured client side install)

 

Anyone know of such a software? I'm not looking forward to the idea of trying to write my own.

 

[Akolyte]

59 minutes ago, Agons said:

Hello all,

I've been searching the great Google to answer this question.

 

:BackStory:

A friend has used Cacti, version 8.8 with a few no longer supported add-ons to monitor some Cisco hardware and windows machines on his work network. Mainly using SNMPv1 or v2c. Cacti is up to version 1.1.16 last I looked at it, sadly his add-ons no longer work.(Mainly a few additionally graphing pages like "Monitor")

::

 

We have been doing some testing with Untangle, fun router OS. It has SNMP options but where we are falling short is figuring out how to monitor a network interface. Bits/sec Up/down, Bits total Up/Down. Is there a software out there that out of the box will monitor a Unix server via SNMP  for network interface data?

From what I can see it will require doing some changes to the untangles information it sends the server and the server will need to be prepared to accept the additional data. (Likely a software that has a per configured client side install)

 

Anyone know of such a software? I'm not looking forward to the idea of trying to write my own.

 

I'm not sure if you are comfortable using Nagios or Zabbix?  Zabbix can use both SNMP and a Zabbix Client I believe and I believe Nagios can too.   I've never had to do this, I hope this helps none the less.  

[jt999]

Observium might be worth a look also, although I've only used it on Windows and FortiGate devices myself.

[Agons]

Well after playing with Nagios(Which I think was the better option if I was willing to pay for their nice interfaces.) and Observium I Rolled with Observium. It's really good with the amount of graphs it sets up out of the box. Thanks all, I had not seen Observium mentioned before in other online postings about SNMP monitors.