How do I enable RMON History

[LLigetfa]

I have a bunch of HP switches, 5308xl, 2848, and 2524 and it would appear that RMON History is disabled by default. My Fluke WGA does not list them as data sources on the Statistics tab. When I call Fluke TAC, they say I have to enable History Studies and rerun the discovery.

When I called HP TAC, the only crumb they would throw my way is a reference to RFC2819 but I have reached my level of incompetence. When I walk the MIB, the OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.16.2 has no data on any of my HP switches. When I walk the same MIB on my Nortel switches, there is data.

I suspect that HP does not have a CLI command that would turn on history and that it needs to be poked into the MIB, but I am not that smart to know how to do it.

Is there anybody out there smart enough to know how to turn on history?

 

[jkupski]

You're way over my head with this one (I'm most certainly not a network engineer, and I don't play with MIB) but I found your post pretty interesting.

One thing worth noting: I telnet to one of my procurve 4000s, and drop into the CLI. I issue "walkmib 1.3.6.1.2.1.16.2" and receive

ERROR -- No such variable: 1.3.6.1.2.1.16.2.

in response. This, I would imagine, is why you're not able to get any data from your Fluke. It's worth noting that the statistics group IS available. Looking at the 4000M specifications, it is supposed to support the history group as well--so maybe it's obfuscated? Have you tried using toptools to see if it can grab the information you want, then you can work backward?

 

[LLigetfa]

Well... I prefer something a little more sophisticated than the CLI for MIB walking. I use MG-SOFT which ships with the Fluke software but I believe there is a free version that can be downloaded as well. You do however, have to compile your MIBs.

Here is a KB article from Fluke that touches on my topic but does not explain how to. The MIB tree examples BTW, are what MG-SOFT shows. What is not shown is what data you would see if the history were turned on.

http://kb.flukenetworks.com/display_results.asp?sid=3&p=/optiview/what_is_rmon.htm

It is my understanding that TopTools has been obsoleted, replaced by PCM+. I do have PCM+ and while it can configure the RMON alarm group of the MIB, I cannot find anything on the history group.

This is turning into a bit of a RMONster.

Thanks

 

[jkupski]

Wish I could be of more help. The only other thing that I notice is that none of the object names displayed in the history section of the link you provided are available in the procurve's CLI.

Try the HP TAC again? Maybe you'll get a better tech.