Cisco Switch: Free large buffers Health Monitor

Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.CiscoSwitches.FreeLargeBuffers.1.1 (AggregateMonitor)

This monitor catches Xian events that notifies when the Free large buffers has changed its state.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Number of free large buffers is under threshold.

The number of available large buffers is below the minimum threshold configured in Xian Network Manager 2012.

Causes

The switch is assigning packets to an excessive amount of large buffers in order to manage them according to requirements, but they are not releasing them, thus generating insufficiency of free large buffers. It can be done because of a buffer leak.

Resolutions

Analyze the buffer sizes and strategies for handling overflows and reconfigure. Sometimes it can be solved just by updating your Cisco IOS. Use 'show buffers old' command to get more information and find the problem.

Additional

Monitors the number of free large buffers on a Cisco Switch.

Element properties:

TargetJalasoft.Xian.Common.Types.ThirdParty.Cisco.JsXCiscoSwitchMemoryPoolElementContainer
Parent MonitorSystem.Health.PerformanceState
AlgorithmWorstOf
CategoryStateCollection
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityMatchMonitorHealth
Alert PriorityLow
Alert Auto ResolveTrue
RemotableTrue
AccessibilityPublic
Alert Message
Free large buffers Alert
{0}

Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.CiscoSwitches.FreeLargeBuffers.1.1" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="ThirdParty_Cisco!Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Types.ThirdParty.Cisco.JsXCiscoSwitchMemoryPoolElementContainer" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.PerformanceState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal">
<Category>StateCollection</Category>
<AlertSettings AlertMessage="FreeLargeBuffers_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>