topic ACE NAT pool monitoring? in Application Networking https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-networking/ace-nat-pool-monitoring/m-p/2286468#M40552 <P>Hi all:</P><P></P><P>We're running a pair of 4710s in one-armed mode, so we source NAT all connections to the real servers.&nbsp; We recently had a situation when one of our PAT addresses went over 64000 connections, and as such started dropping new ones.&nbsp; This was easily remedied by adding another PAT address to the pool, but it got me thinking - can we graph the NAT translations?&nbsp; I can (somewhat) easily get a count by doing a "show xlate | include x.x.x.x | count", but I was wondering if someone might know if this is available via SNMP?&nbsp; I've searched through the MIBs and not found anything that really matches.</P><P></P><P>Just wanted to throw it out to the community and see if anyone else has invented this particular wheel.</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>mjb</P> Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:41:34 GMT mberkaIPG 2013-10-17T13:41:34Z ACE NAT pool monitoring? https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-networking/ace-nat-pool-monitoring/m-p/2286468#M40552 <P>Hi all:</P><P></P><P>We're running a pair of 4710s in one-armed mode, so we source NAT all connections to the real servers.&nbsp; We recently had a situation when one of our PAT addresses went over 64000 connections, and as such started dropping new ones.&nbsp; This was easily remedied by adding another PAT address to the pool, but it got me thinking - can we graph the NAT translations?&nbsp; I can (somewhat) easily get a count by doing a "show xlate | include x.x.x.x | count", but I was wondering if someone might know if this is available via SNMP?&nbsp; I've searched through the MIBs and not found anything that really matches.</P><P></P><P>Just wanted to throw it out to the community and see if anyone else has invented this particular wheel.</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>mjb</P> Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:41:34 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-networking/ace-nat-pool-monitoring/m-p/2286468#M40552 mberkaIPG 2013-10-17T13:41:34Z ACE NAT pool monitoring? https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-networking/ace-nat-pool-monitoring/m-p/2286469#M40553 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> MJB-</P><P></P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp; SNMP was never updated to show nat pool exhaustion.&nbsp; Your best bet for automation would be to use the XML API and monitor this command:&nbsp; show np 1 me-stats "-socm" | i "NAT Pool Alloc \[fail\]" </P><P>It incriments whenever we cannot allocate a source NAT.</P><P></P><P>Regards, </P><P> Chris Higgins</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:53:09 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/application-networking/ace-nat-pool-monitoring/m-p/2286469#M40553 chrhiggi 2013-10-24T17:53:09Z