topic Re: Solar Winds in General Topics

Solar Winds

jdprovine — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:13:54 GMT

Is anyone using solar winds to monitor their PA firewall?

Re: Solar Winds

cpainchaud — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:24:07 GMT

Many customers are. Import PANOS SNMP MIB and have fun with it.

Re: Solar Winds

reaper — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:43:29 GMT

Hi Janelle

these links may come in handy :

SNMP for Monitoring Palo Alto Networks Devices

Enterprise SNMP MIB 7.0

Enterprise SNMP MIB 6.1

regards

Tom

Re: Solar Winds

jdprovine — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:57:41 GMT

I see so do they get useful information? We already have several syslog server collecting information off the PA.

Re: Solar Winds

jdprovine — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:59:02 GMT

Thanks I will take a look at these

Re: Solar Winds

reaper — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:02:39 GMT

Hi Janelle

That kind of depends what information is useful to you

The syslog servers will most likely be receiving traffic/threat related logs and possibly some system logs (alarms, admin logins, ...).

SNMP would provide you with system metrics including temperature, fan speeds, cpu usage, interface counters etc. and is more commonly used to graph out system performance. to keep an eye on your cpu gauge or bandwidth traversing the firewall

Re: Solar Winds

jdprovine — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:48:10 GMT

Very good point. I do not manage solarwinds so I guess it is based on what they want to see. I can see quite a lot. I added a trap using version v2c but I havent' added any MIB's or anything so I would suppose it is a very limited infomation

Re: Solar Winds

jdprovine — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:52:54 GMT

Right now I am on 6.1 so if I load the MIB's for 6.1 and then upgrade to 7 do I have to upgrade the MIB's separately?

Re: Solar Winds

jdprovine — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:04:35 GMT

How do you apply the MIB's and I am only planning on using snmp traps nothing else