Managing non Cisco Devices with CiscoWorks

[JimMcDonald]

This is my first post here, so hello all. What I am looking for is someone who may have some help with managing my ATM switches using CiscoWorks. The switches are SNMP compliant but I have been unable to get them to report to my CiscoWorks server. The ATM Switches are TimePlex Synchrony CX1500 and are equipped with HRIM Hub router cards for IP or LANE configuration of SNMP. If any of you have used this combination of the CX1500 and CiscoWorks I need to know how to allow my ATM switches to report at least link status to my CiscoWorks. Supposedly according to the Synchrony folks the ATM switch follows industry standards for SNMP management but I am skeptical at this point. Any info you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jim McDonald

 

[gripper99]

Jim

With great difficulty.
It's how to interrogate the SNMP agent on your Timeplex hardware and how to interrogate the SNMP Traps when received when something goes pear.
If you had purchased NNM you can load multi-vendor MIBS into the software which will enable you to do the above.
You could load both the CISCO & Timeplex MIBS but
I don't seem to remember their being an option on CW to load 3rd party MIBS.
You wouldn't expect Cisco to give you the option to manage Timeplex and vice-versa.
Hope this helps
Gripper

 

[ntjyaa]

Hi,
I am trying to integrate a device with CiscoWorks (CW) in order to send SNMP info to it and get SNMP info from it.
any ideas anyone?

Nitai

 

[gripper99]

htjyaa

(1) CW should discover the node. From then on in you should be able to extract SNMP data from the agent by default as CW loads the correct MIBS for most Cisco devices.
The only thing which could bar this is the SNMP community strings on the device MUST correspond with CW.
With regard to SNMP traps - as long as you have the SNMP-SERVER host IOS statement on the device sending the traps to your CW host, their shouldn't be any other further configuration.
HTH
Gripper