Cisco Nexus: Total error packets Health Monitor

Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.CiscoNexus.TotalErrorPackets.1.1 (AggregateMonitor)

This monitor catches Xian events that notifies when the Total error packets if has changed its state.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Number of total error packets is over threshold.

The total number of packets containing errors is above the maximum threshold configured in Xian Network Manager.

External

www.jalasoft.com/KnowledgeBase

Causes

Error packets are received when a sent request could not be satisfied, a packet could not be explained by a network delay/duplication or it lost access to a required resource.

Resolutions

If the current number of error packets is consistently increasing, it might require to identify error source in the interface processing, by discriminating between incoming and outgoing packets.

Additional

Monitors the total number of packets that contained errors when an interface on a Cisco Nexus has been receiving or sending information.

Element properties:

Target

Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Elements.ThirdParty.Cisco.JsXCiscoNexusInterfaceElement

Parent Monitor

System.Health.PerformanceState

Algorithm

WorstOf

Category

StateCollection

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

MatchMonitorHealth

Alert Priority

Low

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Public

Alert Message

Total error packets Alert

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Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.CiscoNexus.TotalErrorPackets.1.1" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="ThirdParty_Cisco!Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Elements.ThirdParty.Cisco.JsXCiscoNexusInterfaceElement" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.PerformanceState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal">

  <Category>StateCollection</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="TotalErrorPackets_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>