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Viptela device monitoring with NPM 12.1

Hi All,

I am looking for a solution for monitoring Viptela devices with NPM 12.1 , I read somewhere saying it can be done the same way as Meraki " with API key" but I still wanted to test by myself.

Please let me know your thought on this.

with regards,

George

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luggage

Hi George,

Currently we monitor the vEdge routers just via SNMP and I use undp to monitor OIDs for bfd session state, etc (adding the tloc local color enumeration as the label on each row).

Would be nice to be able to interact with vManage via its REStful API directly or have events from vManage push to NPM but we are not there yet.

OIDs I use are:

1.3.6.1.4.1.41916.6.1.1.1.8 bfdSessionsListLocalColor

1.3.6.1.4.1.41916.6.1.1.1.10 bfdSessionsListState

I then have this trigger alerts based on the tloc local color having an Up BFD session in the ListState table (we have a dual hub/spoke policy) and triggering an alert if it doesn't. Some of my alert logic isn't all the way there yet though if the result is a table that does not have a row for the color i'm looking for in it (due to physical interface down, etc).

Peter.

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pguenther

I have the same question. I don't have any Meraki device so not familiar with the API method you mentioned. We just rolled out a small Viptela deployment with hopes to take it enterprise wide.

zagwill

George,

Your not alone, I in need of monitoring Viptela equipment as well. SW or another THWACK member if you have dug deep into this area, please share your findings.

Thanks,

WillQ

luggage

Hi George,

Currently we monitor the vEdge routers just via SNMP and I use undp to monitor OIDs for bfd session state, etc (adding the tloc local color enumeration as the label on each row).

Would be nice to be able to interact with vManage via its REStful API directly or have events from vManage push to NPM but we are not there yet.

OIDs I use are:

1.3.6.1.4.1.41916.6.1.1.1.8 bfdSessionsListLocalColor

1.3.6.1.4.1.41916.6.1.1.1.10 bfdSessionsListState

Peter.

deroum

Could you please show how you were able to do this? I am capturing all this information but I am unsure how to get it to alert when the TLOC color changes since both the snmp polls are returning table values.

luggage

We're doing this by:

UNDPs assigned to vEdge nodes:

1.3.6.1.4.1.41916.6.1.1.1.8 bfdSessionsListLocalColor (Get Table: Enumerate 2=mpls, 4= biz-internet)

1.3.6.1.4.1.41916.6.1.1.1.10 bfdSessionsListState (Get Table: Enumerate 1= Down, 3=Up)

Then using a custom SWQL query thanks to a great amount of help from shuth to show the status of the BFD session table. We apply this to all nodes in our environment linked via custom property "StoreMainSite" so we can see the bfd status on the details page of all nodes (switches, etc) at that site... you can do this some other way, or just on your vEdge nodes so you don't need to make this relationship.

This works for us as we run a dual hub/spoke control policy topology for our environment. On a full mesh you would probably need to come up with a different way to do this.

SELECT
    n.Caption AS NodeName,
    n.DetailsUrl AS [_linkfor_NodeName],
    t1.Status AS Status,
    '/Orion/images/StatusIcons/Small-' + s.Status + '.gif' AS [_IconFor_Status],
    t2.Status AS Type,
t3.Label AS HubSite


FROM Orion.NPM.CustomPollerStatus s 
JOIN Orion.NPM.CustomPollerAssignment a ON s.CustomPollerAssignmentID = a.CustomPollerAssignmentID
JOIN Orion.Nodes n ON n.NodeID = a.NodeID


-- Link State (Up, Down)
JOIN
    ( SELECT s.Status, s.CustomPollerAssignmentID, s.DateTime, s.Rate, s.Total, s.RawStatus, s.RowID
    FROM Orion.NPM.CustomPollerStatus s
    JOIN Orion.NPM.CustomPollerAssignment a on s.CustomPollerAssignmentID = a.CustomPollerAssignmentID


    WHERE a.CustomPollerName = 'bfdSessionsListState'
    AND a.NodeID IN (
    SELECT
        n.NodeID
       FROM Orion.Nodes n
       JOIN Orion.NodesCustomProperties cp ON n.NodeID = cp.NodeID


       WHERE cp.StoreMainSite IN 
        (
          SELECT 
           cp.StoreMainSite AS SourceMainSite


          FROM Orion.NodesCustomProperties cp
          WHERE cp.NodeID = '${NodeID}'
        )    
)
    ) AS t1  ON s.RowID = t1.RowID


-- Link Colour (lte, mpls, biz-internet, etc)
JOIN
    ( SELECT s.Status, s.CustomPollerAssignmentID, s.DateTime, s.Rate, s.Total, s.RawStatus, s.RowID
    FROM Orion.NPM.CustomPollerStatus s
    JOIN Orion.NPM.CustomPollerAssignment a on s.CustomPollerAssignmentID = a.CustomPollerAssignmentID


    WHERE a.CustomPollerName = 'bfdSessionsListLocalColor'
    AND a.NodeID IN (
    SELECT
        n.NodeID
       FROM Orion.Nodes n
       JOIN Orion.NodesCustomProperties cp ON n.NodeID = cp.NodeID


       WHERE cp.StoreMainSite IN 
        (
          SELECT 
           cp.StoreMainSite AS SourceMainSite


          FROM Orion.NodesCustomProperties cp
          WHERE cp.NodeID = '${NodeID}'
        )    
)
    ) AS t2  ON s.RowID = t2.RowID


-- Link Label (8888, 9999)
JOIN
    ( SELECT l.label, l.RowID
    FROM Orion.NPM.CustomPollerLabels l 
JOIN Orion.NPM.CustomPollerAssignment a ON a.CustomPollerAssignmentID = l.CustomPollerAssignmentID

    WHERE a.CustomPollerName = 'bfdSessionsListLocalColor'
    AND a.NodeID IN (
    SELECT
        n.NodeID
       FROM Orion.Nodes n
       JOIN Orion.NodesCustomProperties cp ON n.NodeID = cp.NodeID


       WHERE cp.StoreMainSite IN 
        (
          SELECT 
           cp.StoreMainSite AS SourceMainSite


          FROM Orion.NodesCustomProperties cp
          WHERE cp.NodeID = '${NodeID}'
        )    
)
    ) AS t3  ON s.RowID = t3.RowID



WHERE a.CustomPollerName = 'bfdSessionsListState'
AND a.NodeID IN (
    SELECT
        n.NodeID
       FROM Orion.Nodes n
       JOIN Orion.NodesCustomProperties cp ON n.NodeID = cp.NodeID


       WHERE cp.StoreMainSite IN 
        (
          SELECT 
           cp.StoreMainSite AS SourceMainSite


          FROM Orion.NodesCustomProperties cp
          WHERE cp.NodeID = '${NodeID}'
        )    
)


ORDER BY Type

The result looks like this in Node Details for any node at this Site ID - which is a normal state (mpls and biz internet TLOC local color UP to each hub site 8888 and 9999)

To go further shuth has created an alert that fires if a local tloc color is not up when that node has a custom property set that reflects that colored link has been provisioned for this site.

Prineel

Hi, hope you can assist. Trying to monitor these OID's but get OID not supported.

1.3.6.1.4.1.41916.6.1.1.1.8 bfdSessionsListLocalColor

1.3.6.1.4.1.41916.6.1.1.1.10 bfdSessionsListState

Running the following IOS

Cisco IOS XE Software, Version 17.03.02 Cisco IOS Software [Amsterdam], ISR Software (X86_64_LINUX_IOSD-UNIVERSALK9-M), Version 17.3.2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)

Thanks