topic Re: MONITOR DEVICE PARAMETERS in Cloud Networking Platform

MONITOR DEVICE PARAMETERS

vineet.singh — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:25:33 GMT

Hello Folks,

Would like to understand on monitoring the below parameters for Meraki devices.

CPU Utilisation

Memory Utilisation

Interface Utilisation

Channel Utilisation

Reviewed below links:

_https://documentation.meraki.com/zGeneral_Administration/Monitoring_and_Reporting/SNMP_Overview_and_Configuration

_https://documentation.meraki.com/MX-Z/Monitoring_and_Reporting/Load_Monitoring

But not getting a clear picture on these parameters.

Appreciate if someone can assist on this ?

Regards,

Vineet

Re: MONITOR DEVICE PARAMETERS

CMetsch — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:13:46 GMT

Where are you getting that information? To be honest I did not find any of that in the MIB files. You can monitor a lot of things but not % data which is probably what you need to compile using a sample of data over time.

Re: MONITOR DEVICE PARAMETERS

vineet.singh — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:24:16 GMT

This came as a requirement to monitor these parameters. So just trying to explore how can it can be achieved.

Re: MONITOR DEVICE PARAMETERS

Philip D'Ath — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:37:56 GMT

You can get some of this (at least a feel for this) via the Dashboard, except for memory utilisation.

Re: MONITOR DEVICE PARAMETERS

CMetsch — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:38:10 GMT

Unfortunately, you cannot monitor Meraki's CPU/Memory information via API or SNMP. However, you can monitor ports traffic and sample over time to do performance monitoring, which the dashboard does in the cloud.

For example, you monitor a switch uplink port every 60 seconds and gather total packets in/out and measure them over time. This way you can see how much traffic every minute.

Re: MONITOR DEVICE PARAMETERS

vineet.singh — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:16:23 GMT

I am unable to find CPU or memory utilization of any device in Dasboard. Would you be able to direct me to the any available settings ?

Re: MONITOR DEVICE PARAMETERS

vineet.singh — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:18:56 GMT

@CMetsch wrote:
Unfortunately, you cannot monitor Meraki's CPU/Memory information via API or SNMP. However, you can monitor ports traffic and sample over time to do performance monitoring, which the dashboard does in the cloud.
For example, you monitor a switch uplink port every 60 seconds and gather total packets in/out and measure them over time. This way you can see how much traffic every minute.

Correct. So can i finalize my comment that it is not possible to view CPU/memory utilization of a device ?
But if that is the case, from a performance monitoring perspective, isnt it a feature which is missing ?

Re: MONITOR DEVICE PARAMETERS

Philip D'Ath — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:33:58 GMT

This article talks about the load monitoring feature. I don't think it is turned on by default, so you might have to ask support to turn it on for you.

https://documentation.meraki.com/MX-Z/Monitoring_and_Reporting/Load_Monitoring

On the whole you never have performance issues with Meraki MX kit as long as you stay within the sizing guidelines.

https://meraki.cisco.com/products/appliances#models