Import MIBs in Zenoss
If you are using Zenoss as a monitoring solution, chances are you are sending snmp traps to it, right? In that case you should always remember to import the MIBs for the devices you are monitoring. Because if you don’t it can be a real pain in the ass to figure what it is wrong when all you see is a “warning snmp trap enterprises.2.6.211.4.11”. Sadly there is no way to import MIBs using the gui in Zenoss, you have to use the cli. So here’s a short guide: First you need to download the MIBs. The easiest way to do that is to google the oid that is sent to Zenoss, there are a bunch of sites that provide MIBs for download. One example being oidview Next you need to copy the MIB to the server running Zenoss. If you are experienced with Linux that shouldn’t be a problem…
Xerox ZenPack for Zenoss 3.x
At the company where I currently work we lease a bunch of Xerox copiers. Those leasing contracts are based on number of prints per device. That means that once a month we have to gather pagecounts from all our printers (about 100 of them) and report them to our supplier, which takes a lot of time. Since we already were using Zenoss for monitoring of the printers I figured I could try and gather the information via snmp. That resulted in this ZenPack. It creates a device class, /Printer/Laser/Xerox and assigns a Monitoring Template called XeroxPageCounts. The monitoring template consist of 3 DataPoints, BlackPageCount, ColorPageCount and TotalPageCount. It also includes a graph using the 3 DataPoints. What I did after creating this ZenPack is create a new view which contains all these graphs. So now we simply open the new view and all the info we need is right there,…