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NPM 10.1 Questions/Issues - UCS Monitoring

First, I'm excited to see this feature added. We've had UCS for a year now and it'll be nice to have something monitoring the various components.

Minor Issues Encountered:

- The documentation was really sparse.

- The UI asks me if I want to apply APM monitors to it. I can't think of a case where this is valid.

Questions:

- I configured UCS for SNMP. Is this necessary or is everything pulled from the UCS manager via HTTP?

Errors:

- UCS is reporting really strange results for virtual ethernet adapters. I checked and it sees the link speed as 10Gbps, but it's showing transfer rates well above that. This obviously doesn't make sense.

- SNMP location is shown in the UI and there is no way in UCS to set it.

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Accepted answers

pshanesmith

It appears that 64-bit counters make it malfunction. I removed it from NPM and readded it without 64-bit counters and everything appears to be working fine.

All comments

bshopp

Since you have APM that is just a normal part of the add node flow, I agree, no sense in adding APM monitors.

I believe interface into is pulled via SNMP. Can you do a walk of the IF-MIB and see what the results are?

pshanesmith

I have verified it is pulling the info via SNMP. Also, this appears to be a bug in NPM. I pulled the stats via Engineer's Toolkit and the numbers show up properly. My initial thought was that it saw the interface at the wrong connection speed, but everything is reporting correctly with the connection speed. The "current traffic" and "% utilization" are off. I can't find the correlation with the numbers either.

bshopp

Hmm ok, we did not see that internally on our UCS device. Can you open a support case and upload diags and the IF MIB walk from toolset?

pshanesmith

Can you confirm you tried monitoring virtual ethernet interfaces in your environment?

dwsmithjr

How did you configure the UCS for SNMP and how did you set up Orion to monitor the UCS by SNMP? I'm having difficulty getting the UCS polling to work. I'm unsure what credentials to use. I specified port 161 which is the port the UCS is using and setup an SNMP user. Nothing seems to work.

Nandish

I could see you have made several post on problems adding UCS to NPM.I would suggest to open a support ticket to look into this sooner.