Watch4net| EMC M&R | ViPR SRM: SysOID displayed instead of Model details; How to replace OID number with model name for an unknown model / OID showing has model

Products

• VMware

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


How to display model name instead of OID number for an unknown model in EMC M&R and ViPR SRM

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - Watch4Net/M&R

Resolution

This is done easily by modifying the allOid2Models
For Cisco devices you must update ptf-mds3.xml which will update allOid2Models-mds.csv upon collector-manager restart

File are located under:

• UNIX/Linux: /opt/APG/Collecting/Mapped-Property-Tagged-Filter/<INSTANCE>/conf/
   
• Windows: C:\Program Files\APG\Collecting\Mapped-Property-Tagged-Filter\<INSTANCE>\conf\

Equipment Name	IP Address	Model	Description
Mediant	xx.xxx.xxx.xxx	1.3.6.1.4.1.5003.8.1.1.47	Product: MG 1K;SW...

 

The format of this file is very simple (TAB is used as the delimiter):

model_oid model_name

Here is an abstract of this file:

.1.3.6.1.4.1.43.1.8.29 SuperStackII Desktop Switch SW Version:2.10
.1.3.6.1.4.1.43.10.27.4.1.2.1 3Com SuperStackII
.1.3.6.1.4.1.43.1.8.24 SuperStack II Switch
.1.3.6.1.4.1.43.1.13.1 SuperStackII Advanced RPS
.1.3.6.1.4.1.135.28 AccessBuilder 6218-JX
[...]

Restart the collector manager.

Additional Information

After adding the missing OID and model number to ptf-mds3.xml, and restarting the Cisco MDS collector manager, the reports would display both OID and model number under Model. The allOid2Models file also had to be modified to add OID and model number:

ptf-mds3.xml:
<parameter name="line">.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.12.3.1.3.843,MDS DS-HP-8GFC</parameter>
 
allOid2Models:
.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.12.3.1.3.843             MDS DS-HP-8GFC
 
After the above modifications, the switch Model displays the correct model number.