topic Anyone using Cacti? in ZoneDirector

Anyone using Cacti?

john_case_56682 — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:17:18 GMT

I am running Cacti for monitoring our network, and would like to monitor the Zone Director as well. What I'm running into is that there are no Cacti templates out there and I'm not comfortable building my own. Has anybody built a Cacti template that monitors the ZD or APs?

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

michael_brado — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:38:21 GMT

Ruckus can provide the ZoneFlex MIBs, but cannot help with any 3rd party products.
Contact your SE or VAR to submit a feature request on your behalf, as they are the
only ones who can interface with the product marketing managers, who make the
decisions to support products like Cacti, Orion, etc.

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

john_case_56682 — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:42:35 GMT

I have already expressed my disappointment in the reporting tool to my VAR. The reason I'm looking at Cacti is so I can have reporting beyond 24-hours. Hopefully someone in the Cacti community can help develop the config files.

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

keith_redfield — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:07:33 GMT

John, we also have a tool called FlexMaster which I believe goes to 30-days history. It sounds like you don't already have Cacti as an incumbent NMS, and FlexMaster can provide services that go beyond what SNMP can provide. If you have a small network, there's a 10-device "demo" version available on our website (the VM has FlexMaster pre-installed on Centos)

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

john_case_56682 — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:00:39 GMT

Sorry, but if I spend the money on FlexMaster I would expect more data logging than 30 days. Hopefully I can work through the Cacti solution.

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

david_monachin1 — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 20:43:10 GMT

I recently ran into an issue just like this. I ran a BYOD test and the best I could do was run SNMP gets every 30 seconds to collect what turned out to be almost useless data.

Reporting on ZD3000 would be nice. I've never understood why its not there to begin with.

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

keith_redfield — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:44:37 GMT

Which monitoring tool?

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

david_monachin1 — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:01:54 GMT

Solarwinds NPM i built up a set of custom SNMP pollers. My issue with all of it is I would rather be able to pull a report even a simple one from the ZD rather than have to use a 3rd party app to pull data from the ZD and generate a report that way.

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

keith_redfield — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 18:31:43 GMT

We made some significant enhancements to SNMP data post the 9.5 release so if you were using earlier versions I'd recommend trying 9.5.1 or higher.

Anyone willing to post config files/pollers/widgets from other platforms, I think that would be very helpful for other customers.

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

david_monachin1 — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 21:17:21 GMT

Here are some of the OID's i Poll. Would still be really nice to get an executive level report off of the ZD though!

Total Associated
1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.30
Attempted Authentication
1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.26
Number of Clients
1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.12
Successful Authentication
1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.28
WLAN Rx Bytes
1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.14
WLAN TX Bytes
1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.16
WLAN Rx Packets
1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.13
WLAN Tx Packets
1.3.6.1.4.1.25053.1.2.2.1.1.1.1.1.15

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

keith_redfield — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:31:45 GMT

This is a great conversation that's separate from the main topic, so I created a new topic to continue the discussion. Please reference the new topic here: Better reporting on-device

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

odilo_univali — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:55:14 GMT

We are using Cacti to monitor our APs and ZD.. it has been really helpful for us..
If you want we can share with you our Cacti templates 🙂
Here is some graphs screenshots..

ps: the only little problem is that sometimes the ZD stop anwser to SNMP requests, like on the graph above it's shown a gap between 18:00 and 00:00.

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

john_case_56682 — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:46:39 GMT

I would love if you could share your templates. My email is jcase at ohiohipoint dot com.

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

keith_redfield — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 00:57:14 GMT

@Odilo - this is great, thanks very much!

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

odilo_univali — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:13:32 GMT

I sent the templates for you last week, did you recieved?

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

john_case_56682 — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:46:16 GMT

Sorry, I didn't receive them. Can you try sending again to jcase@ohiohipoint.com?

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

shawn_412860 — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:30:19 GMT

I would love a copy of your templates also.... sross at calvaryonline dot cc

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

lcbcit — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:18:22 GMT

I would also love to have a copy of the templates. Could you please send them to timbarleyjr [at] LCBCMail [dot] com?

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

odilo_univali — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:28:24 GMT

John did you received this time? I got a timeout error from our MX on first attempt. Let me know... otherwise I will upload the files to a webserver for some days so everyone can download it..

Re: Anyone using Cacti?

odilo_univali — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:43:13 GMT

Guys, I believe it's better if you could just download the templates on this link: http://siaiota02.univali.br/odilo/cac...

Let me know if you are able to download them. I will let the link online for some days..

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How to:
Try to import the files to Cacti on the “Import templates” option, Console tab -> Import/Export.

I don’t know why but when I was exporting the Host template of Ruckus ZD 3000 I got an error on Cacti and was not able to export. But it is easy to create one after you import the files attached.

At the Console tab, click on Host Templates option and add a new one:
- Set a useful name for the host template.
- Associate 2 graphs to it:
Ruckus ZD 3000 – Clients
Ruckus ZD 3000 – CPU
- Associate one data query type:
SNMP - Interface Statistics
It will look like the image bellow:

After that you need just to add your devices and create/customize your graphs.

Just another thing, I opened a case with Ruckus support for help with Cacti templates, MIBs etc., and after a while I gave up and just did my way..
I was not able to collect data using SNMPv3 😞 still don't know why and I didn't had much time to try it again as we needed the information at the time.. so, I'm still using SNMPv2 to collect data 😕 but it's graphing.. 🙂 I'll work on that later..