Cisco Router: Created huge buffers Health Monitor

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

This monitor catches Xian events that notifies when the Created huge buffers if has changed its state.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Number of created huge buffers is over threshold.

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

Causes

After buffer failures, the router is creating an excessive amount of huge buffers in order to manage packets according to requirements due to insufficient free huge buffers.

Resolutions

Analyze buffer sizes and strategies for handling overflows and perform buffer tuning by increasing minimal number of free huge buffers.

Additional

Monitors the number of huge buffers 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

Created huge buffers Alert

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Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.CiscoRouters.CreatedHugeBuffers.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="CreatedHugeBuffers_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>