Cisco ASA: Load Balancing sessions outgoing dropped packets Health Monitor

Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.CiscoASA.LBSessionsOutgoingDroppedPackets.1.1 (AggregateMonitor)

This monitor catches Xian events that notifies when the Load Balancing sessions outgoing dropped packets if has changed its state.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Load Balancing session global outgoing dropped packets is over threshold.

The number of discarded outgoing packets by all active Load Balancing sessions is above the maximum threshold configured in Xian Network Manager 2012.

Causes

It may be due to Firewall are being used. Another option is that the packet is dropped because the flag does not allow DHCP pass-through traffic. Thus, the client cannot acquire an address, and it times out

Resolutions

Check your sessions logs and determine what is the cause of the dropping

Additional

Monitors the total number of packets dropped by all active Load Balancing sessions which were dropped during transmit processing by the managed entity

Element properties:

TargetJalasoft.Xian.Common.Elements.ThirdParty.Cisco.JsXCiscoASALBSessionsElement
Parent MonitorSystem.Health.PerformanceState
AlgorithmWorstOf
CategoryStateCollection
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityMatchMonitorHealth
Alert PriorityLow
Alert Auto ResolveTrue
RemotableTrue
AccessibilityPublic
Alert Message
Load Balancing sessions outgoing dropped packets Alert
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Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.CiscoASA.LBSessionsOutgoingDroppedPackets.1.1" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="ThirdParty_Cisco!Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Elements.ThirdParty.Cisco.JsXCiscoASALBSessionsElement" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.PerformanceState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal">
<Category>StateCollection</Category>
<AlertSettings AlertMessage="LBSessionsOutgoingDroppedPackets_AlertMessage">
<AlertOnState>Warning</AlertOnState>
<AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>
<AlertPriority>Low</AlertPriority>
<AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>
<AlertParameters>
<AlertParameter1>$Data/Context/Params/Param[3]$</AlertParameter1>
</AlertParameters>
</AlertSettings>
<Algorithm>WorstOf</Algorithm>
</AggregateMonitor>