[c-nsp] Monitoring Nexus 7000 platform

[Ash Net]

Thanks All for the feedback. The only issue with DCNM deployment is
its a new tool and there will be a learning curve for the ops team
plus will take time to customize the interfaces.

We were mainly hoping to get 6K level of monitoring in place for the
7K as well since SNMP is much more prevalent in our envrionment and
quick to deploy with DCNM planned in the future.

I'm quite surprised to see thus far that not too many orgs have
perhaps utilized the snmp monitoring capabilities of the chassis and
wondering what Cisco is doing to enable ESM vendors to integrate Nexus
platform in the monitoring suite.

Would still really appreciate If somebody could share there snmp based
monitoring experiences.

Best,

On 8/13/09, Justin C. Darby <jcdarby at usgs.gov> wrote:
> We use DCNM for real-time monitoring here (e.g. we use it to
> troubleshoot issues as they arise) - works great for this purpose,
> though in my opinion the configuration interface is a little
> over-complicated compared to just using the CLI, which is a bad sign. :)
>
> The XML interface is very, very well documented. Each revision of NX-OS
> ships with a new XML spec package to describe the interfaces. You can do
> a lot more than just monitor things with the XML interfaces - e.g.
> automate port provisioning tasks in an in-house product/app. We're
> planning to use some of this functionality to integrate switch
> configurations into our inventory system (eventually).
>
> If you hit up the downloads page for NX-OS you should see a zip file of
> XML specifications in there.
>
> Justin
>
> Ryan Hughes wrote:
>> >From what I've seen on much of the new DC equipment, Cisco focused more
>> on
>> XML than SNMP for the monitoring hook into the Nexus gear. I know many of
>> the features you're asking for were bolted on per customer requests but I
>> haven't seen any specific templates out there around this. I'd be
>> interested
>> in to hear what some of the TME's who pay attention to this have to say.
>> DCNM is the platform that Cisco deployment to handle management/monitoring
>> for the Nexus but I haven't seen many customers buy it yet ( IIRC - it
>> makes
>> excellent use of the XML API's available ).
>> Ryan
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Ash Net <ashnet2009 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yep, we know that already. I'm finding that there isn't a lot of
>>> management systems (OV/Concord atleast) that can natively monitor the
>>> 7k's since they haven't certified the platform yet.
>>>
>>> Wondering how people are monitoring elements such as CPU Health, intf
>>> utilization, topology change event traps of the 7K Chassis etc. There
>>> doesn't appear to be a comprehensive MIB that has all the elements
>>> defined.
>>>
>>> It'd be great to hear from folks who have these boxes deployed and
>>> have them in any enterprise monitoring systems.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/13/09, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Ash Net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> We have recently deployed N7k's in our DC and want to enable
>>>>> monitoring on them.
>>>>>
>>>> N7Ks have a dedicated management processor; they also have a
>>>> management software system which I believe ships with every N7K.
>>>>
>>>> They also output operationally useful NetFlow.
>>>>
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
>>>>
>>>>          Unfortunately, inefficiency scales really well.
>>>>
>>>>                  -- Kevin Lawton
>>>>
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