Need trigger condition for the HA failover in WLC node.

Iswariya

I want to create alert for whenever the failover happens in cisco WLC nodes.

Thanks in advance!

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antonis.athanasiou

I haven't had a WLC monitored for a few years so this may be outdated but have you tried alerting when the Physical Address of the interface has changed? it's an event-based alert that worked well on Cisco ASA pairs:

You could also try to capture the event using syslog or SNMP Traps which may be a better way since the event is almost real-time and generated by the device itself

Iswariya

Could you please share the steps to configure SNMP trap and their alerts.

antonis.athanasiou

You need to configure the WLC to send syslog/SNMP Traps to your SolarWinds server. Have a look on Cisco documentation as I'm not sure how WLCs are configured. Also lookup for the specific trap message when a failover occurs, this will be your trigger condition.

Last, set up an alert as described here using the specific trap: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/lm/lm-create-custom-rules.htm