Quickstart - Graphing an Ethernet Switch
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Define a custom graph template for your Ethernet switches
Click Template Graphs and click the Duplicate icon beside item Linux Box - LAN Traffic. Now edit the duplicate template and change the name and title:
- Name: Cisco - LAN Traffic
- Title: %dev_name% - %ifDescr%%n - %ifAlias% (ifAlias is optional)
- Comment: Interface\: %ifDescr% - %ifAlias% (ifAlias is optional)
- Vertical label: bytes / sec
Click Save Changes.
Monitor an Ethernet switch via SNMP
Click Admin and add a Template Group called 'Cisco Switches'
Add an Ethernet switch, for example called 'Switch-A', under Monitored Devices for the new Cisco Switches group, set the IP or hostname, SNMP version, and community string. Click Save.
Click the Recache Interfaces' icon next to the new item Switch-A. NetMRG will draw a table of Switch-A's interfaces including:
- Interface index number
- Status (Up/Up, Up/Down, etc)
- Name (Fa0/1, Gig3/12, etc)
- Alias (Cisco IOS user customizable description)
- IP address (if any)
- Mac Address
Select the Cisco - LAN Traffic template in the lower right corner of the window, click the checkbox beside each interface you want to graph, and then click the Monitor/Graph All Checked link.
Click Admin -> Cisco Switches -> Switch A and notice that the interface(s) you selected are now listed as sub-devices of Switch-A.
Click Reporting -> Tree -> Cisco Switches -> Switch-A. The orange graph icon links will display your graphs.
Device graph links display graphs for all interfaces on a page. Sub-Device graph links display graphs for a single sub-device interface.
