Cisco Switch monitoring and management plugin
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:
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Hardware configuration: model, serial number and name
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Firmware version, uptime, last change dates for running and startup configurations
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All system parameters for the switch.
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Interfaces view
The view presents summary for all interfaces present on the switch including:
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Index, description, type (e.g. Ethernet, virtual), physical address, administration and operational statuses.
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Detailed parameter list for each interface, such as MTU, speed, in/out octets, etc.
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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:
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Index, model, name, serial number and status (OK or not working).
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Detailed parameter list for each module (e.g. moduleHWversion, moduleType, etc.).
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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:
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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.
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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.
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Hardware monitors for: temperature, fans and power supplies.
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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 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
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