Monitors Brocades
Project description
System Requirements
Python >= 2.6 and Python < 3
Python modules are in requirements.txt
Installation
From PyPI
Notes
Don’t forget to modify /etc/brocadetool.conf after installation
sudo pip install netscaler-tool sudo mkdir -p /var/log/brocade-tool sudo touch /var/log/brocade-tool/brocade-tool.log sudo chown <user>:<group> /var/log/brocade-tool/brocade-tool.log sudo chmod <mode> /var/log/brocade-tool/brocade-tool.log sudo wget -O /etc/brocadetool.conf https://github.com/tagged/brocade-tool/blob/master/brocadetool.conf.example
From Source
cd brocade-tool
sudo python setup.py install
sudo mkdir -p /var/log/brocade-tool
sudo touch /var/log/brocade-tool/brocade-tool.log
sudo chown <user>:<group> /var/log/brocade-tool/brocade-tool.log
sudo chmod <mode> /var/log/brocade-tool/brocade-tool.log
sudo cp brocadetool.conf.example /etc/brocadetool.conf
Modify /etc/brocadetool.conf
Configuration
All changes should be made in /etc/brocadetool.conf
Set previous_data_path to the path where brocade-tool where store metric for any OIDs that have rate option set.
Set passwd with the SNMP community password
Set oids
If you want to turn a counter into a gauge, specify ‘rate’
(Optional)
Set carbon values, if you plan to send metric to a carbon
Usage
Currently, the brocade-tool is used for monitoring. Enter all the OIDs you want to monitor in the /etc/brocadetool.conf yaml file and that is it.
brocade-tool --help
usage: brocade-tool [-h] [--passwd PASSWD] [--dryrun] [--debug] [--verbose]
[--carbon]
BROCADE {show} ...
positional arguments:
BROCADE IP or name of Brocade
{show}
show sub-command for showing objects
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--passwd PASSWD Community password for brocade user. Default is to fetch
from brocadetool.conf
--dryrun Dryrun
--debug Shows what's going on
--verbose, -v Shows more info
--carbon Send data to carbon?
brocade-tool brocade01 show --help
usage: brocade-tool BROCADE show [-h] {ports} ...
positional arguments:
{ports}
ports sub-command for showing stats about all ports
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
By default, brocade-tool will query the brocade device for all specified OIDs. If you wish to have it only query a sub set of OIDs, you can use –stat
brocade-tool brocade01 show ports --stat swFCPortTxWords swFCPortRxWords
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