03-19-2012 03:52 PM
Hello Palo Alto Community,
I created a few Cacti Templates which allow you to quickly and easily monitor Palo Alto Networks firewalls with SNMP. There are 5 different templates corresponding to the 5 different Firewall families, PA-200, PA-500, PA-20xx, PA-40xx, PA-50xx.
Using these with Cacti (www.cacti.net), these Host templates will monitor the following sets variables, create historical graphs of these variables (example Graphs listed below):
If you know of other OIDs which you feel the broader community would like monitored, I would be happy to add them to the templates.
Once cacti is installed on your favorite OS, you simply connect to the Cacti web interface and import these host templates. Then you can add devices for Cacti to SNMP Poll/Monitor and you have a long term graphical representation of what the firewall is doing, how much traffic it is seeing, how many sessions it is supporting, etc.
Hope these help,
Kameron
06-13-2013 11:20 PM
Hi, I'm fairly new to Cacti and SNMP. How do I get the interface traffic graphs up and running? I can see the graph templates in Cacti, but my assumption is I need to configure the data source some how...
06-14-2013 07:21 AM
I am not sure if you are just using the templates, or if you are using the VM I built. Either way, read this document and it should get you pointed in the right direction: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68056332/Cacti%20Virtual%20Appliance%20Documentation%20-%20Versi...
Hope this helps,
Kameron
06-14-2013 07:22 AM
Follow the directions in this document and you should be in good shape: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68056332/Cacti%20Virtual%20Appliance%20Documentation%20-%20Versi...
06-16-2013 04:27 PM
Kameron.
Is this VM appliance available for download somewhere?
I've built my own, but I'm still having issues with some parts of the PA information, so I'd like to look at yours.
Thanks
06-16-2013 06:00 PM
Me too
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