Monitoring multiple system

[Webmany]

Wondering what people use to monitor mitel systems. We have a large customer looking to monitor multiple system, over a large area. Some of these sites have 3300s, some 200ICPs, some older equipment.

The biggest problem I am running into is multiple sites have the same IP addresses. I can setup snmp, but the info coming in will show the same IP for many sites.

 

[MitelInMyBlood]

Enterprise Manager is the management platform, but duplicate IP addresses aren't going to fly, period.

The 200 ICP used to not be remotely manageable from an alarm standpoint unless that has changed in recent loads. I could be very wrong on this but I don't think it offers SNMP alarm status reporting.

 

[kenny5445]

How do the sites use comms at the moment? They must be using NAT to talk over the links.

Could you setup a NAT address for each ICP and point the enterpise manager at the NAT address?

Thanks

Kenny

 

[Webmany]

NAT will work with the 3300s for remote access, but not monitoring. The SNMP trap includes the systems IP address.

Nat does not work on a 200ICP for remote access. The 200ICPs check to make sure the packets have not been altered, and NAT alters them.


They currently do not have links between the sites. They will eventually, but not looking like it will happen in the next year. A matter of one company buying another and then taking there time to integrate them.

 

[Lundah]

Hate to say it, but I think you're hosed unless you change the IP address of the switches. Besides Enterprise Manager, there's a ton of 3rd party SNMP management systems out there that can take care of basic monitoring, but all of them will gag on the fact that nodes with the same IP address will be sending traps.

 

[slapin]

It depends what you mean saying "to monitor". If it's just simple ping, no problems. SNMP agent counters? Should not be a problem as well. I have built an application which using MiTAI to monitor trunks usage in real time, so we have a picture of current load at any given moment.

 

[Webmany]

I am looking at something to collect traps.

What did use to make the monitor program? Perl?

 

[slapin]

C++ for a backend server and Flex (Flash) for the frontend communicating over XMLSocket

 

[slapin]

Just published the appliocation on

http://www.tvman.org.ua/

So if anybody wants to play with it, welcome. Please don't blame me if it's not working or crashing. It is first alfa version.

 

[Webmany]

Do you know where I can find the Mitai runtime package?

 

[slapin]

YA Lite installing MiAUDIO and it has MiTAI part as well. Or drop me a message at tvman in domain tvman.org.ua