Huawei Ce6881

[Cilinia Looker]

Thanksfor the response. I am currently monitoring Huawei switches and firewalls using eSight. That's Huawei's answer to SolarWinds but it's not much of an answer. I would love to get back to SolarWinds but those counters you are missing are a pretty big deal.Do you happen to know if you guys have any Hauwei-specific MIBs loaded?

Thanks for the reply. We have a bunch of S5700 series switches so that would be an issue. Sounds like a MIB thing. I going to try to do a little research on Huawei MIBs and see if anything turns up. How are you getting on with eSight? You are the first person I've come across who admits to having heard of it.

Have you guys tried doing mibwalks on the huawei gear and just setting up custom UNDP and CPU/Mem pollers on Orion for the apprioriate OID's? I've done this kind of thing before and had pretty good results. The custom hardware health wouldn't show up alongside the native stuff but with enough SWQL wizardry you can make them look like they were built in resources.

For us it works well, being able to see all the elabel's in one place, do upgrades , provision interfaces, firewall, security etc , have a graphical representation of the router/switch and do mapping is invaluable.

The interesting things that we have found between SolarWinds and ESight are a discrepancy in reported interface utilization , SolarWinds ability to read Netstream (their version of Netflow) is actually better than ESight's.

The issue with memory and CPU is that some Huawei devices use dual management processors or at least split the way the mib's read so that rather than an overall cpu/memory reading that ESight gives you SolarWinds gives a lot of individual readings which are no use.

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