[zenoss-users] Netgear FSM750S switch device modeling problem

[Graham Bloice]

On 26/12/2007, omnisupport <csanford at omnipresence.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Looking for someone out there that may have a solution for an issue I am
> having. I monitoring a Netgear FSM750S switch in Zenoss, when I model the
> device it populates the OS tab with interface data but each port shows
> nothing for description and the MAC address displayed is the MAC for the
> Netgear switch itself for every port. SNMPwalk verifies that this is in fact
> what the netgear is advertising. Does anyone out there know of a way I can
> get the Netgear to advertise the data for each port? Interface description,
> MAC of connected device etc??
>
>
I have a similar issue with a Netgear FS726T switch.  I believe the Netgear
SNMP implementation is simply ignoring whatever you add for interface
descriptions via the switch management interface.

I raised a ticket with Netgear about this, but they ignored that too, so
it's not likely this will ever be fixed by them.

To give me some sensible info (I only have a couple of switches to monitor)
and as I was only interested in snmp trap events, I added some code in the
events to lookup the snmp port ID against a table and add my own
description.  Obviously this solution won't really scale.

It would be really helpful if Zenoss allowed me to set the description for a
particular interface manually.

-- 
Regards,

Graham Bloice
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