nav 3.5.6 and Catalyst 6500 VSS

[Ørjan Sæbø]

Hi

Having migrat3e to VSS (2xcat 6509), NAV is not longer able to recognize any interfaces/modules/etc.

Is there a way to make this work?

The system identifies as type "catalyst65xxVirtualSwitch" and has OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.896


Regards,

Ørjan Sæbø

[Morten Brekkevold]

Post by Ørjan Sæbø
Hi
Having migrat3e to VSS (2xcat 6509), NAV is not longer able to recognize
any interfaces/modules/etc.
Is there a way to make this work?

Unfortunately, we have no experience with monitoring VSS. I'm not sure why
it would look any different than a regular Cisco router via SNMP, though.

The first way to check what's going on in NAV is to retrieve an excerpt of
getDeviceData.log (grep for the VSS box' name), to see what it says.

A full SNMP dump of the device would be nice as well, but since you are a
UNINETT member, I might ask you if we could be granted SNMP read access to
the device in question? If so, please follow up off-list. The current betas
have replaced getDeviceData as NAV's SNMP collector, and it would be
interesting to know if this helps at all with your VSS setup.

[Morten Brekkevold]

Post by Morten Brekkevold

Post by Ørjan Sæbø
Hi
Having migrat3e to VSS (2xcat 6509), NAV is not longer able to recognize
any interfaces/modules/etc.
Is there a way to make this work?

Unfortunately, we have no experience with monitoring VSS. I'm not sure why
it would look any different than a regular Cisco router via SNMP, though.
The first way to check what's going on in NAV is to retrieve an excerpt of
getDeviceData.log (grep for the VSS box' name), to see what it says.
A full SNMP dump of the device would be nice as well, but since you are a
UNINETT member, I might ask you if we could be granted SNMP read access to
the device in question? If so, please follow up off-list. The current betas
have replaced getDeviceData as NAV's SNMP collector, and it would be
interesting to know if this helps at all with your VSS setup.

After having been granted SNMP access to the device, I can say that it seems
to collect nicely in NAV 3.6.0b6. It presents more or less like a regular
Cisco routing switch.

So it seems your specific problem is gDD related. I cannot say much without
seeing your gDD logs, but I might suggest that you have been afflicted by the
problem described in https://bugs.launchpad.net/nav/+bug/283240 . If your
gDD logs indicate repeated timeouts for your VSS, this is likely, and you
should try the workaround described in the bug report.