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Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 12:43 am
by sneha.irali
Hi Team,

I want to Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1, what is the procedure I have to follow.

Can anyone help me out here.

Thanks in advance..!!

Re: Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:00 pm
by ssax
We don't have any official F5 plugins but you can see the 3rd party ones we have here:

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... rk-Gear/F5

You can follow this guide here for most plugins:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

A lot of customers use this plugin:

https://labs.consol.de/nagios/check_nwc ... index.html

Which requires a different setup:

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wget https://labs.consol.de/assets/downloads/nagios/check_nwc_health-8.3.1.tar.gz
tar zxf check_nwc_health-8.3.1.tar.gz
cd check_nwc_health-8.3.1
./configure
make all
make install
Then test it out against the F5:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nwc_health --hostname X.X.X.X -t 60 --community 'yourcommunity' --mode cpu-load
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nwc_health --hostname X.X.X.X -t 60 --community 'yourcommunity' --mode hardware-health
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nwc_health --hostname X.X.X.X -t 60 --community 'yourcommunity' --mode memory-usage
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nwc_health --hostname X.X.X.X -t 60 --community 'yourcommunity' --mode disk-usage
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nwc_health --hostname X.X.X.X -t 60 --community 'yourcommunity' --mode interface-usage
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nwc_health --hostname X.X.X.X -t 60 --community 'yourcommunity' --mode interface-errors
You can see the plugin help for other options:

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nwc_health -h
If you have any questions on a specific plugin, please link the plugin to us and send any errors you are seeing and the command you are running.

Thank you!

Re: Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:21 pm
by sneha.irali
Sure, Let me check on the pulg in provided and get back to you.

Re: Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1

Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 3:49 pm
by benjaminsmith
Hi,
Sure, Let me check on the pulg in provided and get back to you.
Sounds good. Just update the post when you are ready.

Re: Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 4:06 am
by sneha.irali
Hi,

I added the F5 devices using the network switch/router wizard, it was successful. But for few device ports I see the below o/p. What can cause this problem..?

This o/p is for both utilization and port status.

[root@nagios: /usr/local/nagios/libexec]# ./check_ifoperstatnag 1296 -v3 -u 'xyz' -A 'abcdef' -a 'SHA' -l 'authNoPriv' 10.x.x.x
UNKNOWN - No info is being retrieved

Note: I have hided the snmp username and password.

Re: Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 5:07 am
by sneha.irali
I checked for SNMP as well it is responding.

few ports on the same device are returning the values and few say this "no info being retrieved".

Re: Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2021 7:08 pm
by ssax
What does this output?

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snmpget -v3 -u 'xyz' -A 'abcdef' -a 'SHA' -l 'authNoPriv' 10.x.x.x ifOperStatus.1296

Re: Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:29 am
by sneha.irali
[root@nagios: /usr/local/nagios/libexec]# ./check_ifoperstatnag 1296 -v3 -u 'xyz' -A 'abcdef' -a 'SHA' -l 'authNoPriv' 10.x.x.x
UNKNOWN - No info is being retrieved

Re: Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:33 am
by sneha.irali
here is the o/p:

$snmpget -v3 -l authNoPriv -u xyz -a SHA -A 'abcdef' 10.x.x.x ifOperStatus.1296
IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.1296 = No Such Instance currently exists at this OID

Re: Setup F5 device monitoring on Nagios XI 8.5.1

Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2021 3:40 am
by sneha.irali
b/w for the same device I see as 0:

OK - Current BW in: 0Mbps Out: 0Mbps