Palo Alto SNMP MIBs loading on librenms

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Hi,

My palo alto firewalls lately had an issue after which i decided to monitor also the packet buffer & connection per seconds on our firewalls.
I found the below URL showing the extended SNMP support which PAN firewalls can support.
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/8-0/pan-os-new-features/management-features/extended-snmp-support

So i want to configure this for PANOS-8.1 version, for this there’s a procedure -
A. https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/snmp-mib-files - from here the MIB file needs to be downloaded
B. https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/7-1/pan-os-admin/monitoring/use-an-snmp-manager-to-explore-mibs-and-objects – > this one shows how to load these MIBs.

I am using Librenms to monitor all my network devices and i am unable to find a way to make this working.

I would really appreciate if someone can guide me with this.

Regards,
Nishad

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Hello @Nishad_Mehra

The documentation you have to follow is the same as the one for adding new OS support :
https://docs.librenms.org/Developing/Support-New-OS/
In your case, the OS support is already done, you only need to extend it to newer OIDs.

Most probably the mibs are already loaded into LibreNMS.

Your steps :

  • Identify which OID you need to monitor (name and numerical form)
  • Add it in the YAML files describing PaloAlto devices in LibreNMS (if possible)
  • Code PHP support if OID cannot be added in YAML.

If you don’t feel you can do it yourself, you can add an issue in GitHub (https://github.com/librenms/librenms/issues) with ALL the requiered data and somebody may do it for you. Don’t forget that LibreNMS is an opensource system with developpers doing it on their free time, so this variant may take some time.

Bye.