Monitoring Cisco AP Dot11 Associations in Cacti

14. January 2016 · Comments Off on Monitoring Cisco AP Dot11 Associations in Cacti · Categories: Cacti, Cisco, Networking, Wireless · Tags: , , , , , ,
CACTI

This Cacti template should work with any autonomous Cisco AP. It will SNMP poll and display all active Cisco AP Dot11 Associations in Cacti. Note the AP I am testing with has an AIR-RM3000AC-A-K9 module, giving me an extra radio.

Cisco Dot11 - Active Wireless Clients

If you do not have a 802.11AC radio installed in your AP then after importing you may need to modify the Graph Template and remove all the Radio2 graph template items; not doing so may cause the graph not to display properly.

SNMP OIDs queried: [SOURCE]

ActiveWirelessClients (for 2.4Ghz radio) = OID: .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.273.1.1.2.1.1.1
ActiveWirelessClients (for 5Ghz radio) = OID: .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.273.1.1.2.1.1.2
ActiveWirelessClients (AIR-RM3000AC-A-K9) = OID: .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.273.1.1.2.1.1.10
This Cacti template will import/update the following items:

GPRINT Preset

  • Normal
  • Exact Numbers

Data Input Method

  • Get SNMP Data

Data Template

  • Cisco Dot11 – Radio0 Associations
  • Cisco Dot11 – Radio1 Associations
  • Cisco Dot11 – Radio2 Associations

Graph Template

  • Cisco Dot11 – Active Wireless Clients

Traceroute script to detect route changes.

05. January 2016 · Comments Off on Traceroute script to detect route changes. · Categories: Linux, Linux Scripts, Networking · Tags: , , ,
tux

The following script relies on MTR and is meant to be run in cron. It could be useful to log and/or detect route changes you the downstream provider path to multiple endpoint IP’s. Additionally the log-file is compressed using XZ tools so you do not have to worry about the logs growing to an unmanageable size very quickly.

#!/bin/bash
## Crontab Example: @hourly /opt/mtreport.sh -p
 
HOSTS="10.100.100.43 192.168.3.4 172.16.16.10"
LOGFILE="/srv/mtreport.log.xz"
 
# FUNCTION: End Script if error.
DIE() {
 echo "ERROR: Validate \"$_\" is installed and working on your system."
 exit 0
}
 
MTRRUN() {
 /usr/sbin/mtr --report --report-cycles 1 --raw --no-dns $HOST |\
  awk 'NR%2==1 {printf  " "$NF;} NR%2==0 {printf "|"$NF/1000;}'
}
 
# Validate script requirements are meet.
type -p /usr/sbin/mtr > /dev/null || DIE
 
if [ "$1" == "-p" ]; then
 
 # Main Loop.
 for HOST in $HOSTS
  do echo "$(date +%s)$(MTRRUN)" | xz -9 -c >> "$LOGFILE"
 done
 
elif [ ! -z "$1" ]; then
 
 xzgrep "$1" "$LOGFILE" | while read LINE
  do ARRAY=( $LINE )
 
   ## Show the Timestamp ##
   echo; date -d @${ARRAY[0]} +'%Y/%m/%d_%H:%M:%S'
   ARRAY=("${ARRAY[@]:1}") # Drop the timestamp array element
 
   ## Itirate through hops ##
   for HOP in "${ARRAY[@]}"
    do [ -z "$COUNT" ] && { COUNT=0; }
     echo "$COUNT|$HOP ms"
     let COUNT++ # Increment Hop Count
    done | column -ts\|
   done
 
else
 
 echo "Poll --> $0: -p"
 echo "View --> $0: x.x.x.x"
 
fi