Graphing DHCP pools

[David Ramage]

I have custom pollers built in Solarwinds, and that handles the graphs for me.

From: dhcp-users [mailto:dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of project722
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 9:19 AM
To: Users of ISC DHCP <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>
Subject: Re: Graphing DHCP pools

What do you guys use for the NMS graphing part ? Cacti? Solarwinds?

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu<mailto:cra at wpi.edu>> wrote:
Here is my previous email on this topic with a patch for dhcpd-snmp
that gives more detailed stats, especially for DHCP Failover:

https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2014-March/017693.html

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 11:23:22AM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> Add this:
>
> pass_persist .1.3.6.1.4.1.21695.1.2 /usr/sbin/dhcpd-snmp /etc/dhcpd-snmp.conf
>
> to the file /etc/snmp/snmpd.local.conf (create the file if it doesn't exist already).
>
> Adjust file paths appropriately.  Then restart snmpd.
>
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 09:58:11AM -0600, project722 wrote:
> > I'm looking into the dhcpd-snmp tool. I've downloaded the files, and they
> > are working correctly. I'm at the part of the instructions where is says
> > "it can now be installed in Net-SNMP".
> >
> >  https://github.com/ohitz/dhcpd-snmp
> >
> > I'm not the best with SNMP, and my team does not have our own NMS. That
> > being said, I am looking into standing one up. But, first, can someone tell
> > me where Net-SNMP needs to be installed? Is that on the DHCP server itself
> > or the NMS? Can someone suggest a good open source NMS that can run on Red
> > Hat/Cent and can then graph this data that it collects?
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:20 AM, project722 <project722 at gmail.com<mailto:project722 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > David, which one are you referring to? dhcpd-snmp or dhpool.pl<http://dhpool.pl>?
> > >
> > > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:29 AM, David Ramage <dramage at lsnetworks.net<mailto:dramage at lsnetworks.net>>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> I use that tool.  It is very nice because it allows you to monitor your
> > >> pools via your existing NMS.
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: dhcp-users [mailto:dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org<mailto:dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org>] On Behalf Of
> > >> Chuck Anderson
> > >> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 7:33 AM
> > >> To: Users of ISC DHCP <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org<mailto:dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>>
> > >> Subject: Re: Graphing DHCP pools
> > >>
> > >> There is:
> > >>
> > >> https://github.com/ohitz/dhcpd-snmp
> > >>
> > >> Then you can use your favorite SNMP graphing tool.
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:52:51AM -0600, project722 wrote:
> > >> > Hey guys, I'm looking for a solution that can take the data from our
> > >> > dhcp server and use that to create charts and graphs of of our scopes.
> > >> > Currently we are using a homegrown bash script that uses the Google
> > >> > API for charts to do the graphing and create the charts. But, although
> > >> > its very nice looking it takes ALOT of re-working the script every
> > >> > time we add a pool or adjust a scope. I'm looking for another
> > >> > solution. One that can automatically detect and put up a new chart
> > >> > when we add scopes and one that could possibly retain historical data.
> > >> > I've thought about solarwinds but I'm not sure if it can plug into
> > >> > Linux like this or if it even has such a feature for dhcpd.
> > >> >
> > >> > Any suggestions?
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