Cisco Router: Buffer elements created Health Monitor

Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.CiscoRouters.BufferElementsCreated.1.1 (AggregateMonitor)

This monitor catches Xian events that notifies when the Buffer elements created if has changed its state.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Number of created buffer elements is over threshold.

The number of created buffer elements is above the maximum threshold configured in Xian Network Manager 2012.

Causes

After buffer failures, the router is creating an excessive amount of buffer elements in order to manage internal operating system queues due to insufficient free buffers.

Resolutions

Analyze buffer strategies and perform buffer tuning if necessary by increasing minimal number of free buffers.

Additional

Monitors the number of buffer elements created on a Cisco Router.

Element properties:

Target

Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Types.ThirdParty.Cisco.JsXCiscoRouterMemoryPoolElementContainer

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

Buffer elements created Alert

{0}

Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.CiscoRouters.BufferElementsCreated.1.1" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="ThirdParty_Cisco!Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Types.ThirdParty.Cisco.JsXCiscoRouterMemoryPoolElementContainer" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.PerformanceState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal">

  <Category>StateCollection</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="BufferElementsCreated_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>