[c-nsp] Testing reachability

Charles Wyble charles at thewybles.com
Sun Apr 12 12:29:08 EDT 2009


Lower you NMS sensitivity. Only have it alert after n failures in n 
time. I do this with nagios. It has an algorithm which causes it to 
change the level of checking dynamically based on if their is a failure 
or not.

Aftab Siddiqui wrote:
> There could be several reasons for a packet drop on particualr in some
> point in time. It could be coz of high traffic utilization or may be
> coz of high cpu utilization incase of a system process. There is no
> general rule for troubleshooting that's why placing the NMS is very
> critical with in the enterprise network.
> 
> For a start if you have snmp enabled devices than start polling the
> switch/router ports for traffic (mrtg) and CPU.
> 
> It will definately help to drill down the problem.
> 
> On 12/04/2009, Sami Joseph <sami.joseph at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Network Management Gurus,
>>
>> I have an Enterprise network and my NMS is showing interfaces on some
>> devices as down and that is because it keeps checking their availability
>> with snmp/ping and if one response is missed then it considers the interface
>> as down and needs to acknowledge/clearing the alarm in order to remove it.
>>
>> I would like to know why that response is missed so we can fix it. Is there
>> a tool that can give me a detailed report that  can help me troubleshoot
>> this?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sam
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