F5 Big IP: Virtual machine outgoing traffic Health Monitor

Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.F5BigIp.VMOutgoingTraffic.1.1 (AggregateMonitor)

This monitor catches Xian events that notifies when the Virtual machine outgoing traffic if has changed its state.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Virtual machine outgoing traffic is over threshold.

The number of outgoing Kbits per second from the virtual machine is above the maximum threshold configured in Xian Network Manager 2012.

Causes

Increase of network demand sent from the virtual machine.

Resolutions

Evaluate virtual machine configuration to ensure that it is allowing only crucial traffic. If required, implement additional security appliances, or evaluate a redistribution of demand to reduce outgoing traffic from virtual machine.

Additional

Monitors virtual machine outgoing traffic.

Element properties:

Target

Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Elements.ThirdParty.F5Networks.JsXF5BigIpV46VirtualMachineElement

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

Virtual machine outgoing traffic Alert

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Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.F5BigIp.VMOutgoingTraffic.1.1" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="ThirdParty_F5Networks!Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Elements.ThirdParty.F5Networks.JsXF5BigIpV46VirtualMachineElement" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.PerformanceState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal">

  <Category>StateCollection</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="VMOutgoingTraffic_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>