Cacti - Templates

[kklein]

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):

• Traffic the firewall is passing through each selected interface(s)
• The number of Active Sessions (TCP, UDP and ICMP)
• The number of Concurrent Sessions (aggregate of Active Sessions)
• Session Utilization Percentage – Based on the PAN Firewall Model
• Temperature of the Firewall
• Uptime of the Firewall

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

[alexander_conn]

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...

[kklein]

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

[kklein]

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...

[darren_g]

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

[alexander_conn]

Me  too