[c-nsp] monitoring switch stacks

[Ge Moua]

Dale Carder-
Are you guys also monitoring queue drops on the interfaces too; if so 
can you forward me the OID?

Regards,
Ge Moua | Email: moua0100 at umn.edu

Network Design Engineer
University of Minnesota | Networking & Telecommunications Services



Dale W. Carder wrote:
>
> 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)
>
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