Without digging into MIB's, is there a way to monitor the hardware of Cisco switches for failed or predicted failure of hardware such as ports? Is this something that is being researched?
You can definitely monitor the operational status of power supplies and fan trays, and you can receive snmp traps for alerts generated on almost anything else. I know there are custom pollers on the content exchange, so look around there for what's available. I think that most issues on modules and such would require you to watch the traps and/or syslogs to determine if there was an impending failure. I don't know that Cisco has a predictive failure feature for ports.
Turn on Syslog on your Cisco devices and use Trap alerts on top of NPM monitoring. This will give you the ability to alert upon when a switch sees an issue and sends a message to the SW Trap service making you proactive and able to see the issue right away since SW would be "listening" for these messages as opposed to learning about issue between polling intervals.
If you really want to manage the power on Cisco with NPM then I suggest you implement EnergyWise into your Environment. It's a Cisco protocol and NPM functions with it. This will report on the power usage and consumption and also allow you to set the ability to change power usage at peak/off peak times.
You can also poll the Fans and Power Suppies using UnDP's built around the specific OID's you want to poll.
Hi Richard,
Very nice piece of information that you have shared. However, in my work environment, Solarwinds Trap Service is disabled. NPM was receiving too many trap messages which made spooling reports from our Solarwinds database very slow.
So, please what do you advise? Any other ideas?
Regards,
hi
Orion syslog and traps are not to large scale.
you have two options :
config the network to send only the type you want to NPM.
consolidate your traps and syslog to another tool like kiwisyslog very cost effective.
kiwi can forward your syslog back to npm after it got clean up.
that video from Leon clear that up nicely
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SdUJ47f463w
