[j-nsp] Solarwinds Monitoring Problem

Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim ihsan.junaidi at gmail.com
Sun Jun 6 10:42:03 EDT 2010


Hi,

If you do a show system statistics icmp, do you see any drops resulting from
rate limiting?

On 6 June 2010 20:43, Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org> wrote:

> Great... and guess what we're getting ready to deploy? ;)  We have an NSM
> Express system sitting in the box ready to go soon...
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> Our problem though doesn't appear to be SNMP itself - just problems pinging
> the hosts..... during  the time that Solarwinds says "site is down" you
> can't ping the box however SNMP still functions...
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> Cheers,
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> Paul
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> From: Jeff Cadwallader [mailto:wompus at gmail.com]
> Sent: June-05-10 8:24 PM
> To: Paul Stewart
> Cc: juniper-nsp
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Solarwinds Monitoring Problem
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> Paul
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> We have seen the same thing on our ex series 3200 and 4200. we have not
> seen
> it on our MX480's yet. Our logs showed that the SNMP daemon had stopped.
> Opened a case with jtac and they mention (after 2 months I might add) that
> if you used Juniper's NMS (which we are) that that might cause those
> symptoms due to excessive polling. We junked the NMS and it hasn't seemed
> to
> happen since.
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> Jeff
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> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org> wrote:
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> Hi folks...
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> I'm starting here to see if anyone has seen this behaviour before by
> chance....
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> We're in a migration to Solarwinds for monitoring of our network resources.
> On the network are several Juniper devices (and lots more coming soon).
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> Every so often (about once a month or so), the Solarwinds system triggers
> with a "node down" alarm.  When this occurs, it's showing a Juniper device
> (which varies) as "down".  Definition of "down" simply means it's not
> pingable.
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> The behaviour we're seeing is that from the Solarwinds server we suddenly
> cannot ping the remote Juniper device - however - we continue to monitor
> SNMP successfully on that device.  These Juniper devices have been MX480,
> EX3200 and EX4200 to date.  During these outages I have been able to ping
> these devices from any other location on our network except the Solarwinds
> server.
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> If I reboot the Solarwinds server, the alarm clears so I thought this is
> clearly an issue with the monitoring system ... but ... recently I rebooted
> one of the Juniper switches and the issue cleared as well....
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> Logs on the Juniper devices are clean - nothing indicating a problem.
> Solarwinds systems doesn't show anything of interest...
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> Thoughts? ;) I'm thinking of setting up another open source monitoring
> solution just to further eliminate the Juniper side of this...
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> Paul
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Thank you for your time,
Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim


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