<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Just a comment on NX-1642]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Both BIG-IP F5's and CITRIX Netscaler's imbed the ascii equivalent of the user defined field name as the trailing oids.</p>
<p dir="auto">You can see this in the walk data vs the text version<br />
ASCII<br />
47.67.111.109.109.111.110.47   <br />
CHAR<br />
/Common/</p>
<p dir="auto">Once I had worked that out, monitoring F5's and Netscaler's became much, much easier. Having it indexed would be even better.</p>
<p dir="auto">Lots of other things are like this - CISCO blade centre blades and thinks like that.</p>
<p dir="auto">From the archives: - ascii to char conversion<br />
<a href="https://ee.hawaii.edu/~tep/EE160/Book/chap4/subsection2.1.1.1.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://ee.hawaii.edu/~tep/EE160/Book/chap4/subsection2.1.1.1.html</a></p>
<p dir="auto">I use CITRIX now, but for F5 snmp monitoring - it is  reasonable well documented here ==?  <a href="https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-external-monitoring-implementations-13-1-0/13.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-external-monitoring-implementations-13-1-0/13.html</a></p>
<p dir="auto">The only problem is that the mib with the indexed oids are in F5-BIGIP-LOCAL-MIB.txt - which they do not explain how to do the conversion - but they do explain everything else.</p>
<p dir="auto">The challenge here is that we selectively monitored the server / vserver / node tables for specifics such as UP or DOWN and if membership was 100%.</p>
<p dir="auto">Perhaps include a SNMP wizard that walks the mib, builds the various tables (ltmPoolMember is one example of a table we used), allowing the user to select which items in the table to monitor.</p>
<p dir="auto">Our way?  - walk the  whole mib - copy our virtual server name / paste into ascii converter - then copy the ascii string - paste it onto the end of the OID for that table that we wanted to monitor -</p>
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