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Verax NMS Cisco Switch management plugin allows easy monitoring, alerting, health check, management and performance reporting of Cisco Systems' switches via Cisco SNMP MIBs.

General information view

The view presents general configuration information about a switch such as:

• Hardware configuration: model, serial number and name
• Firmware version, uptime, last change dates for running and startup configurations
• All system parameters for the switch.

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Interfaces view

The view presents summary for all interfaces present on the switch including:

• Index, description, type (e.g. Ethernet, virtual), physical address, administration and operational statuses.
• Detailed parameter list for each interface, such as MTU, speed, in/out octets, etc.
• All interfaces with problems are highlighted for easy troubleshooting.

Modules view

The view presents summary for all modules (e.g. expansion cards) present to the system including:

• Index, model, name, serial number and status (OK or not working).
• Detailed parameter list for each module (e.g. moduleHWversion, moduleType, etc.).
• All modules with problems are highlighted for easy troubleshooting.

Performance view

The performance view allows to monitor processes running on the switch and their performance:

• List of active processes: PID, name (e.g. DHCP Receive) along with performance statistic for each process such as: average CPU time, dynamically allocated memory, freed memory, number of invocation times and others.
• List of memory pools with detailed statistics for each pool such as: status (valid/invalid), used and available bytes and largest available continuous memory block.
• Hardware monitors for: temperature, fans and power supplies.
• Detailed CPU usage statistics

Predefined Cisco Switch monitoring templates

The plugin contains predefined templates for most commonly monitored Cisco Switch items. Most important, selected templates are provided in the table below (other, additional sensors and performance counters can be added by the user):

Cisco Switch monitoring templates

Cisco Switch Free memory (in bytes)

Cisco Switch CPU busy 5 sec

Cisco Switch CPU busy 1 min

Cisco Switch CPU busy 5 min

Cisco Switch Temperature for testpoint 1

Cisco Switch Temperature for testpoint 2

Cisco Switch Number of buffer allocation failures

Cisco Switch Number of buffer create failures due to no free memory

Cisco Switch Number of free buffer elements

Cisco Switch Maximal number of buffer elements

Cisco Switch Number of buffer element hits

Cisco Switch Number of buffer element misses

Cisco Switch Number of buffer element creates

Cisco Switch Size of small buffers

Cisco Switch Total number of small buffers

Cisco Switch Number of free small buffers

Cisco Switch Maximum number of small buffers

Cisco Switch Number of medium buffer misses

Cisco Switch Number of medium buffer trims

Cisco Switch Number of medium buffer creates

Cisco Switch Size of big buffers

Cisco Switch Number of free big buffers

Cisco Switch Maximum number of big buffers

Cisco Switch Number of big buffer hits

Cisco Switch Number of big buffer misses

Cisco Switch Number of big buffer trims

Cisco Switch Number of big buffer creates

Cisco Switch Size of large buffers

Cisco Switch Number of free large buffers

Cisco Switch Number of large buffer hits

Cisco Switch Number of large buffer trims

Cisco Switch Number of large buffer creates

Cisco Switch Size of huge buffers

Cisco Switch Total number of huge buffers

Cisco Switch Number of free huge buffers

Cisco Switch Maximum number of huge buffers

Cisco Switch Number of huge buffer hits

Cisco Switch Number of huge buffer misses

Cisco Switch Number of huge buffer trims

Cisco Switch Number of huge buffer creates

Cisco Switch Number of small buffer hits

Cisco Switch Number of small buffer misses

Cisco Switch Number of small buffer trims

Cisco Switch Number of small buffer creates

Cisco Switch Size of medium buffers

Cisco Switch Total number of medium buffers

Cisco Switch Number of free medium buffers

Cisco Switch Maximum number of medium buffers

Cisco Switch Number of medium buffer hits

Cisco Switch Total number of big buffers

Cisco Switch Total number of large buffers

Cisco Switch Maximum number of large buffers

Cisco Switch Number of large buffer misses

Performance counters and alarming

All the above parameters can be added as sensors/performance counters within Verax NMS and configured for alarming.

See also

Cisco Router monitoring and management plugin