2006 Nov 13 - Mon
Basics for Creating a Cisco Network Monitoring Server
This monitoring server is based upon a basic Debian 2.6 Etch 2 installation. Use the
Debian Base Build document to create the base server.
Once the base build is complete, a number of different applications can be individually installed.
As each application is individually documented, they can be mixed and matched as appropriate.
Preparation
Configure the server as an NTP server:
apt-get install ntp
apt-get install ntp-server
Configure the /etc/ntp.conf file with one or more specifc
servers if you need more than just pool.ntp.org, which may offer up the same server more than
once (depending upon how your DNS server caches entries). To restart the
service:
/etc/init.d/ntp-server restart
Useful debugging tools include ntpq, ntpdc, and tcpdump. Be
patient as NTP requests cycle on a 64 second basis. The NTP port of interest is UDP port
123.
Configure Syslog by editing /etc/default/syslogd and fix the configuration to
show:
SYSLOGD="-r"
Cisco devices typically use facility 7 for their syslog entries. Therefore direct these
log entries to a specific file by adding the following line in the server's /etc/syslog.conf:
local7.* /var/log/cisco.log
Then restart the service:
/etc/init.d/sysklogd restart
Note for the future:
These folders should be archived and CVS'd for each
transfer: /usr/share/snmp/mibs
/var/www
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