Just a comment on NX-1642
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Both BIG-IP F5's and CITRIX Netscaler's imbed the ascii equivalent of the user defined field name as the trailing oids.
You can see this in the walk data vs the text version
ASCII
47.67.111.109.109.111.110.47
CHAR
/Common/Once I had worked that out, monitoring F5's and Netscaler's became much, much easier. Having it indexed would be even better.
Lots of other things are like this - CISCO blade centre blades and thinks like that.
From the archives: - ascii to char conversion
https://ee.hawaii.edu/~tep/EE160/Book/chap4/subsection2.1.1.1.htmlI use CITRIX now, but for F5 snmp monitoring - it is reasonable well documented here ==? https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-external-monitoring-implementations-13-1-0/13.html
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.
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%.
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.
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 -
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