How to monitor Flow Control and MAC Pause frames on a Cisco Nexus 5000

I have an issue on my SAN network which I believe is related to (or demonstrated by) the number of Flow Control pause frames I am seeing from our SAN. I am able to manually log into the Cisco Nexus switches and review these numbers, but I would love to use my SolarWinds environment to keep track of it for me.

I am looking to monitor the "Rx pause" counter from from the Show Interface command. The value is bold and in orange below:

HAM-C5596-01# sho int e1/15

Ethernet1/15 is up

<<<<< OUTPUT CUT >>>>>

51558552145 unicast packets 37266133 multicast packets 1 broadcast packets

51595818279 input packets 249281541741180 bytes

38883830215 jumbo packets 0 storm suppression bytes

0 runts 0 giants 2 CRC 0 no buffer

2 input error 0 short frame 0 overrun 0 underrun 0 ignored

0 watchdog 0 bad etype drop 0 bad proto drop 0 if down drop

0 input with dribble 0 input discard

1527935 Rx pause

<<<<< OUTPUT CUT >>>>>

Any advice on this would be helpful, thanks!

~Nick

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silverbacksays

You may need to create a new poller, if these values are stored in SNMP on these devices. I'd check first with the Cisco community/support. If you can get the OID/MIB for this, then you should be able to create the aforementioned poller and assign it to your Nexus switches.

EDIT: I had a quick look for you, this might help.

krishnamishra0786

hello Gents,

Did you achieved this by any way?, if yes please share your input, because i am also looking same kind of stuff.

thanks in advance.

orionadmin

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.1.3.6.1.2.1.10.7.10.1.5

Note:

the SNMP counters are never cleared unless the device is rebooted

you can manually clear CLI interface counters

which means that if this has been done before you will get different values: from snmpwalks and from CLI.

SNMP Counters: Frequently Asked Questions - Cisco

Q. Are ifInOctets and ifOutOctets SNMP counters the same as the show interfaces In/Out counters?

A. Yes, but only when SNMP is enabled from boot time. If you power on a Cisco device, then enable SNMP, the SNMP counters start from 0. They do not automatically pick up their values from the CLI output.