Cisco Switch: Large buffer hits Health Monitor

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

This monitor catches Xian events that notifies when the Large buffer hits if has changed its state.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Number of large buffer hits is over threshold.

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

Causes

There is a large amount of large packets received and sent by this device using its large buffers.

Resolutions

Verify if this is an expected behavior and tune on your network to avoid this problem.

Additional

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

Element properties:

Target

Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Types.ThirdParty.Cisco.JsXCiscoSwitchMemoryPoolElementContainer

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

Large buffer hits Alert

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Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.CiscoSwitches.LargeBufferHits.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="LargeBufferHits_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>