Monitor your first Cisco router

Monitoring a Cisco Router with SNMP

In this tutorial, we're assuming that your Centreon platform is installed and running well.

Your Cisco router will be monitored using the Cisco standard plugin pack. (More about Plugin Packs here).

Prerequisites

On the Cisco router you want to monitor

The first step is to activate and configure an SNMP service on your Cisco device. Please refer to the documentation of your Cisco device to know how to configure the SNMP service.

Network flow

The target device must be reachable from the Centreon Poller on the UDP/161 SNMP port.

On the central server

In the web interface, go to Configuration > Plugin Packs, search for the Cisco standard Plugin Pack and install it:

Configure the host and deploy the configuration

1. Go to the Configuration > Hosts > Hosts (simplified) menu and click on Add:

   

2. Fill in the following information:

• The name of the router (1)
• A description of the router (2)
• The IP address of the router (3)
• The SNMP version and community (4)
• Select the poller that will monitor the device (5)

3. Click on + Add a new entry in the Templates field (6), then select the Net-Cisco-Standard-SNMP-custom template (7) from the list:

   

4. Click on Save (8). Your equipment has been added to the list of hosts:

   

5. Go to Configuration > Services > Services (simplified). A set of indicators has been created automatically.

   

   You can also use the shortcut beside the host's name to go directly to Configuration > Services > Services (simplified). The list will be filtered by the name of the host:

   

   

6. Deploy the configuration.

7. Go to Monitoring > Resources Status and select All from the Resource status filter. At first, the resources appear with the status Pending, which means that no checks have been executed yet:

   

   After a few minutes, the first results of the monitoring appear:

   

   If not all services are in an OK state, check what causes the error and fix the problem.