User Guide

Network Dell Switch

The nep-network-dell-switch provides the minimum requirements to implement a basic monitoring of a Switch using SNMP protocol. With nep-network-dell-switch it is possible to perform standard monitoring of:

  • All Base monitoring DELL Switch

Using the provided objects, is possible to:

  • HW Temperature

  • HW Memory

  • HW Power Supplies

  • HW Fans

  • HW Power Redundancy

  • HW Overview

  • HW CPU (only Dell OS10)

  • HW Disk (only Dell OS10)

The supported switch models are:

Minimum supported environment

This package can be installed on systems running the software described below. Systems with equivalent components are also suitable for installation.

Required software

Requirements

NetEye

Version 4.20+

NetEye modules

Core

Package requirements

Service and Host Template shipped with package nep-network-dell-switch require the following nep:

  • nep-common

  • nep-network-base

  • nep-centreon-plugins-base

The Package require the installation of following packages: - centreon-plugin-Network-Dell-Os10-Snmp - centreon-plugin-Network-Dell-N4000

On NetEye environment this operation is automatically done by Setup Routine.

Setup instructions

If all requirements are met, you can now install this package. To manually set up the nep-network-dell-switch package, just use nep-setup utility to install it.

nep-setup install nep-network-dell-switch

Once installed the following custom variables should be set:

  • nx_hardware_vendor = Dell

  • host_os = none or Dell OS10

  • nx_hardware_model = n40XXX or n22XX

Available Objects

This section contains a description of all the Objects from this package that can be used to build your own monitoring environment.

Director Objects

This package contains the following Director Objects:

Data Lists

The following Data Lists can be freely customized by the End User. Their purpose is to provide easy data filling to better describe the monitoring environment.

Datalist name

Description

[NX] Centreon Dell Switch n4000 Mode List

Used to provide the list of check available for check_nwc_health command

[NX] Centreon Dell Switch os10 Mode List

Service Templates

The following Service Templates can be used to freely create Service Objects, Service Apply Rules or Service Sets. Remember to not edit these Service Templates because they will be restored/updated at the next NEP Package update.

Template name

Run on Agent

Description

nx-st-agentless-snmp-centreon-network-dell-n4000

No

Checks all base monitoring DELL Switch N40XXX using Centreon Plugins

nx-st-agentless-snmp-centreon-network-dell-os10

No

Checks all base monitoring DELL Switch OS10 using Centreon Plugins

Service Sets

The following Service Sets can be used to freely monitor Host Objects. Remember to not edit these Service Sets because they will be restored/updated at the next NEP Package update.

Service Set name

Description

nx-ss-network-dell-switch-n4000

Service Set providing all Base monitoring DELL Switch N4000: Memory,CPU,Environment

nx-ss-network-dell-switch-os10

Service Set providing all Base monitoring DELL Switch OS10: Hardware,CPU,Memory

ITOA Dashboards

The Package does not provide any ITOA Dashboards right now.

Package’s objects list

Object Type

Object Name

Do not edit

Containing File

Director Command

nx-c-centreon_dell_n4000

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-switch-02-command.json

Director Command

nx-c-centreon_dell_os10_snmp

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-switch-02-command.json

Director Data List

[NX] Centreon Dell Switch n4000 Mode List

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-switch-01-datalist.json

Director Data List

[NX] Centreon Dell Switch os10 Mode List

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-switch-01-datalist.json

Director Service Set

nx-ss-network-dell-switch-n4000

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-switch-05-serviceset.json

Director Service Set

nx-ss-network-dell-switch-os10

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-switch-05-serviceset.json

Director Service Template

nx-st-agentless-snmp-centreon-network-dell-n4000

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-switch-04-service.json

Director Service Template

nx-st-agentless-snmp-centreon-network-dell-os10

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-switch-04-service.json