SNMP Monitoring and ZABBIX

watchdogrr · April 3, 2011, 2:48pm

My apologies if this should fall within another topic group however this appeared the most relevant.

I would like to know or discuss if anyone has requested the ability to have SNMP installed and allow for interface configuration for the public and private communities. From the research that I’ve conducted, I feel this is yet another option that MIOS/VERA2 could provide and have a leg up on other options.

I use ZABBIX heavily at work at at home and allowing this as an ability first to monitor the vera unit and then further, creating vendor specific MIB’s for the data that is available on each device I feel would open a whole host of doors for monitoring and management.

USE CASE: I have recently installed a TRANE thermostat, the vera 2 unit is obviously polling data, this along with other temperature units I plan to purchase could provide a good list of information. I would then create a new host and template in ZABBIX, then request from the vera2 via SNMP the latest values which would be graphed in zabbix to show the temperature fluxuations occuring throughout the home. In addition, if I see other events such as door/window scensors and such, ZABBIX could further be used as the notification engine thus freeing time from further configuration within vera2 if they don’t wish to be as elaborate as what may be provided in a monitoring and management system. Just like I can now see my network devices (FW, SWITCH, WIRELESS) network graphs at any level within my home as well as the monitoring of all of my computer systems, this would allow me to see the temperature changes, device triggers, lights on/off, all at my control and depending how I set up ZABBIX or some other monitoring system. This then is fully historical just like all of my other data collection points.

Again, if this has been discussed previously, my apologies however I feel as if this would be a huge win and further allow many of the other open source monitoring and management systems to work hand in hand with the vera 2 solution.

Thank you

watchdogrr · April 7, 2011, 4:51pm

bump

watchdogrr · April 7, 2011, 11:18pm

As stated in another post, it may be of more value if vera could send events to a configured destination similar to the following: zabbix_sender

Again, the goal would be to keep everyone focused on what they are good at and leverage what has already been developed.

habbe · August 28, 2011, 7:14pm

Hello. I’'m new owner to an vera2.

I’m planning to graph temperature and humidity and took for granted that basic snmp polling was supported.

So how does everyone graph devices ?.

Ap15e · August 28, 2011, 8:19pm

http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=7305.0
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=7333.0

habbe · August 28, 2011, 10:10pm

Thanks.

There are some google weather variables in the syslog, but nothing from my smartswitch which reports watts in the ui.

Does your plugin need support for smartswitch devices or is it syslogging every variable for all the devices ?

Ap15e · August 29, 2011, 8:37am

AFAIK there is no way to get a list of all UPnP services a device supports (UPnP lacks introspection …), so I have to map MCV’s device category to a list of corresponding UPnP services. I’ll add support for energy metering to switches and dimmers.

futzle · August 29, 2011, 12:02pm

Also see this topic.

Ap15e · August 29, 2011, 6:15pm

@habbe

GDL V0.7 adds URN_EnergyMetering1 to the following device categories: [tt]DIMMABLE_LIGHT (2), SWITCH (3), HVAC (5), WINDOW_COV ( 8 ), GENERIC_IO (11)[/tt]

Please download the new version from:
[tt]http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=7305.0[tt]

habbe · August 29, 2011, 7:45pm

Thanks.

I don’t get any data in the log ?.

Do you need any variables from me ?.

urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:BinaryLight:1

Aug 29 21:43:02 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Dlink Cam Aug 29 21:43:05 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Foscam Cam Aug 29 21:43:08 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a gc100 Aug 29 21:43:14 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a SQ Puck Aug 29 21:43:17 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Panasonic IP Cam with autenthication Aug 29 21:43:20 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Sercomm IP Cam with autenthication Aug 29 21:43:23 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Sercomm IP Cam without autenthication Aug 29 21:43:26 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Dlink Cam Aug 29 21:43:29 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Foscam Cam Aug 29 21:43:32 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a gc100 Aug 29 21:43:39 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a SQ Puck Aug 29 21:43:42 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Panasonic IP Cam with autenthication Aug 29 21:43:45 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Sercomm IP Cam with autenthication Aug 29 21:43:48 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Sercomm IP Cam without autenthication Aug 29 21:43:51 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Dlink Cam Aug 29 21:43:54 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Foscam Cam Aug 29 21:43:57 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a gc100 Aug 29 21:44:01 192.168.1.188 crond[854]: USER root pid 12019 cmd /usr/bin/Rotate_Logs.sh Aug 29 21:44:03 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a SQ Puck Aug 29 21:44:06 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Panasonic IP Cam with autenthication Aug 29 21:44:09 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Sercomm IP Cam with autenthication Aug 29 21:44:12 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Sercomm IP Cam without autenthication Aug 29 21:44:15 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Dlink Cam Aug 29 21:44:18 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a Foscam Cam Aug 29 21:44:21 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: It isnt a gc100 Aug 29 21:44:25 192.168.1.188 cmh_pnp[11366]: ===END cmh_PNP for IP=192.168.1.194===

habbe · August 29, 2011, 7:52pm

Ohh my bad.

Here it comes.

Aug 29 21:51:17 192.168.1.188 GDL_6_urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:EnergyMetering1/Watts: 1314647477 SmartSwitch_Energy_Meter 187

Thank you…

habbe · August 30, 2011, 11:38am

Is it possible to report the following variables ?.

KWH
KWHReadings

Would be great.

Ap15e · August 30, 2011, 12:16pm

Activate TotalRecall mode.

habbe · September 4, 2011, 9:23am

Hi,

I Just bought an water,temp freeze sensor.

It logs the the alarms but not the temperature that vera polls every 120 seconds…

Any Ideas ?.

Ap15e · September 4, 2011, 11:18am

No change in temperature, no log entry …

habbe · September 4, 2011, 12:06pm

It does change in temperature. It’s visible in setting for the device in vera.

Ap15e · September 4, 2011, 4:57pm

Your device seems to be a combo device. Device category for combo devices is 1. GDL < 0.8 doesn’t support device category 1. GDL V0.8 will be available soon.