I’ve searched the forum and the internet for tutorial on how to capture Router OS’s simple queue OID using cacti, and haven’t find any luck..

So I decided to share my really simple way, by capturing each OID manually for every entry in Simple Queue I want to graph..

Please notice that I am not an expert in whether Cacti or Mikrotik Router OS, so It will be great if you guys willing to show me/us a better way to do this..

Why cacti? why not built-in graphing tools provided by Router OS?…, for now I only have one reason –> With cacti we could gather data from specific range of time..

The Article published earlier in;

• Cacti’s Forum (English)
• Mikrotik’s Forum (English)
• Other Blog (Indonesian)
• Forum RTRW (Indonesian)

This How-to assumed that you already have knowledge on installing and using cacti. Also notice that Router OS Simple Queue OID will be dynamically changed if we delete (-) entry on our queue. To find out the OID of the simple queue we want to graph (from the router OS).

[tjdykb@xxx] > /queue simple pr oid

Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
0    name=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.2.54
bytes-in=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.8.54
bytes-out=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.9.54
packets-in=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.10.54
packets-out=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.11.54

1    name=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.2.32
bytes-in=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.8.32
bytes-out=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.9.32
packets-in=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.10.32
packets-out=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.11.32

2    name=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.2.1
bytes-in=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.8.1
bytes-out=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.9.1
packets-in=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.10.1
packets-out=.1.3.6.1.4.1.14988.1.1.2.1.1.11.1

etc.. 

Watch the ID of the simple queue we want to graph .. the entry we use is bytes-in (download) OID and bytes-out (upload) OID..

What I did (in cacti) was made a data template (duplicated from SNMP – Generic OID Template) one for download and one for upload each, so we will have two data templates, which we will use to capture 2 different OID from one simple queue entry.. The template file link available at the end of this message … I also made a graph Template .. modified from SNMP Interface Template.. (link also available)..

Then I made data-sources for Download Traffic and Upload Traffic using the previously imported/made data-templates (say MT-SQ-down and MT-SQ-up) .. for Download Traffic put the OID bytes-in you get from the Router OS and bytes-out for Upload Traffic..

Finally we made the simple queue graph for Router OS Device, using the graph template imported/made before.. choose Download and Upload Traffic for data-sources. Wait for 10 whole minutes ..

I know it rather stupid, but at least there is a way.
Good Luck

Links,

Data-templates (right click- save as)

• cacti_data_template_mtsqdown_tjdykb.xml
• cacti_data_template_mtsqup_tjdykb.xml

Graph-templates (right click- save as)

• cacti_graph_template_mikrotik_simple_queue_tjdykb.xml