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Abdul - Wed, 2014/02/05 - 03:59
Hi,
I lanuched an AMI "Observium - Network Management and Monitoring by TurnKey Linux" to monitor couple of Cisco routers I have, unfortunately it keep saying "No reply on community public using v1"
I made sure the router configured properly using snmpwalk tool but the problem persist.
Thanks a lot for your help.
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Not sure...
I can however confirm that it 'should' work. I have it running at work and it merrily observes the server, all the PCs and the (cheap consumer grade) modem/router.
So I imagine that it is most likely something specific to your network or hardware. Out of interest I did a quick google and could't find much. Perhas you should double check your config (no doubt they have s wiki or someother docs) and/or post on the Observium mailing list/forums (they should have one or the other, or perhaps both - although if they do, pick just one to post on...).
When you say you launched an
When you say you launched an AMI... Are you running Observium on AWS? Or on the same network as the routers you want to monitor?
If it's on AWS, you won't be able to monitor routers on your private network as SNMP packets would be blocked somewhere along the way. If you login via sash to the Observium instance, can you ping the routers in question?
snmpwalk
The observium is working on Amazon EC2 server readymade package called "Observium - Network Management and Monitoring by TurnKey Linux"
I tried snmpwalk from my personal computer to the Cisco router which is connected to the internet with a public IP without any firewalls and the response was fine and it is reading the snmp on the router.
The host is pingable from the amazon ec2 server
64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_req=1 ttl=232 time=164 ms
I tried snmpwalk from the amazon ec2 obsevium server and the response was "Timeout: No response from x.x.x.x"
I changed the timeout in the snmpwalk to be 1, 30 and 60 sec and still "Timeout: No response from x.x.x.x"
VPN tunnel required I reckon...
I could be wrong (and no doubt Eric will correct me as he designed the Observium appliance) but I would think that with the appliance running on AWS the only reliable way to monitor your LAN would be to configure a VPN tunnel from your Observium appliance to your LAN.
Unfortunately I can't give you any guidance on how to achieve that as i haven't done it (I understand the theory but never performed it in practice).
I'm no VPN expert
I suspect you are seeing one of two problems (or possibly both):
I'm not a VPN expert, but setting up a VPN might work. You'd need the VPN server within your network and the VPN client on the ec2 instance. That said, I don't think that's wise from a security standpoint; if your ec2 instance becomes compromised, your whole network is compromised :(
For network monitoring, you really want the Observium appliance on the same network as is being monitored so I'd run a VM or a low cost server within your network.
You've come to the right place! :)
We have a "virtual appliance"; basically a virtual machine which includes the required software pre-installed and ready to go. You can install the VM (from ISO, OVA or VMDK) by downloading it; or you can launch in the cloud from your browser.
If you intend to download and run locally, then you will also need some sort of virtual machine hosting software (such as Virtual Box, VMware, Hyper-V or similar) to run it within. Assuming you intend to run this all the time, make sure that you install to a machine that is always on (i.e. a workstation or a laptop are probably not good options, other than just for testing...).
Check out the Observium appliance page.
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