[c-nsp] monitoring switch stacks

[Dale W. Carder]

On Oct 14, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Alan Buxey wrote:
>
> just wondered what folk did out there to monitor switch stacks
> (eg stackwise+ switch stacks like 3750e, 2975gs etc (not the older
> gigastack ones....) ) - using the basic methods such as ICMP will
> only show the presence of connectivity to the stack but not the
> actual health of the stack - eg one member is missing.  I'm looking
> at maybe SNMP but support for MIBS in stacks seems somewhat poor

They show up fine, at least on recent code.  On earlier
versions of code (2 years ago or so), it was very buggy
and was not reliable.

We monitor the following.  There have been occasions when
the switch stack ports fail and this caught it.

Cheers,
Dale

IF-MIB::ifDescr.5365 = STRING: StackPort1
IF-MIB::ifDescr.5366 = STRING: StackSub-St1-1
IF-MIB::ifDescr.5367 = STRING: StackSub-St1-2
IF-MIB::ifDescr.5368 = STRING: StackPort2
IF-MIB::ifDescr.5369 = STRING: StackSub-St2-1
IF-MIB::ifDescr.5370 = STRING: StackSub-St2-2
IF-MIB::ifDescr.5371 = STRING: StackPort3
IF-MIB::ifDescr.5372 = STRING: StackSub-St3-1
IF-MIB::ifDescr.5373 = STRING: StackSub-St3-2

IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.5365 = INTEGER: up(1)
IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.5366 = INTEGER: up(1)
IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.5367 = INTEGER: up(1)
IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.5368 = INTEGER: up(1)
IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.5369 = INTEGER: up(1)
IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.5370 = INTEGER: up(1)
IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.5371 = INTEGER: up(1)
IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.5372 = INTEGER: up(1)
IF-MIB::ifOperStatus.5373 = INTEGER: up(1)

CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB::cswSwitchState.1001 = INTEGER: ready(4)
CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB::cswSwitchState.2001 = INTEGER: ready(4)
CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB::cswSwitchState.3001 = INTEGER: ready(4)