NPM reporting huge buffer misses on one of my switches

thor2923

I have just been working with ORION NPM for a couple weeks. I found the table below reporting CISCO BUFFER MISSES. If you notice my switch "Hull Glenn Allen Switch(3650)" is reporting HUGE BUFFER MISSES. Does this indicate a configuration problem? I know no one has seen our network configuration, but if there is anything I can gain or should watch from the chart below, please point me in the right direction. Thanks

Cisco Buffer Misses - Last Month

Node	All Buffer Misses Combined	Small Buffer Misses	Medium Buffer Misses	Big Buffer Misses	Large Buffer Misses	Huge Buffer Misses	Month
Hull_Ft-Lauderdale_switch(4506)	4,841 misses	1,323 misses	1,925 misses	1,593 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
Hull_Glen-Allen_core-switch(3750)	13,489 misses	230 misses	622 misses	12,637 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
Hull_Glen-Allen_switch(3650)	63,085 misses	225 misses	859 misses	24,376 misses	0 misses	37,625 misses	November 2010
Hull_Hurrican_DVUA?	94,093 misses	66,730 misses	13,956 misses	13,407 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
Hull_St-Petersburg_stpsw1	530 misses	320 misses	125 misses	85 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
Hull_St-Petersburg_stpsw3	18,163 misses	9,418 misses	155 misses	8,590 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
Hull_St-Petersburg_stpsw4	24,529 misses	15,528 misses	215 misses	8,786 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
McDuff-Gateway.macduff-fla.com	14,828,891 misses	429,962 misses	102,931 misses	14,295,998 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
PSR_Buckhead_switch(2960)	54,737 misses	25,076 misses	110 misses	29,551 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
PSR_Stockbridge_core-switch(3750G)	15,306 misses	286 misses	212 misses	14,808 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
PSR_Stockbridge_switch1	0 misses	0 misses	0 misses	0 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
PSR_Stockbridge_switch2	0 misses	0 misses	0 misses	0 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010
PSR_St-Petersburg-2950	230 misses	130 misses	95 misses	5 misses	0 misses	0 misses	November 2010

lchance

I was recently doing research about Packet Loss/Packet Discards for myself and came across the fact that HUGE BUFFER MISSES is probably the most important of those buffers to indicate a serious problem. One suggestion I came across was using this command in the IOS configuration. You might check it for further review to see if it helps your case.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/netmgmt/command/reference/nm_02.html#wp1181763