6454 FI Performance Metrics

[ThariqAli]

Is it possible to pull performance metrics from a set of 6454's running in IMM. We are using a 3rd party monitoring tool and would like to pull metrics vis SNMP or from REST API?

[Brian Morrissey]

For SNMP you can use the following guide and MIBs to poll the FI which is probably the simplest option with a 3rd party monitoring tool:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/Intersight/IMM_SNMP_Monitoring/b_imm_snmp_monitoring_guide/m_overview_snmp_monitoring.html

The other option if using Intersight SaaS is copying the druid queries from the 'Code' tab and using Python/Powershell to programmatically retrieve the metrics:

Example guide using Python
https://intersight.com/apidocs/introduction/writing-python-queries/#request-elements

Details on Metrics and Monitoring feature in Intersight SaaS:
https://intersight.com/help/saas/features/monitoring/monitoring_overview

[ThariqAli]

Is this available in the PVA?

Also, can I currently poll the new 6454s and 6500 series via snmp directly?

[Brian Morrissey]

Just available for SaaS currently, not sure on the timelines for the CVA/PVA as it was just recently introduced in SaaS.

For SNMP, you would just need to add/deploy a SNMP policy on your domain profile and then each FI should respond to SNMP.  To test something like this should return info on the IMM mode FI:

[/]$ snmpwalk -v2c -c communitystring x.x.x.x system
SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Cisco NX-OS(tm) ucs, Software (ucs-6400-k9-system), Version 9.3(5)I43(2a), RELEASE SOFTWARE Copyright (c) 2002-2023 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled 8/2/2023 21:00:00
SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID: SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.9.12.3.1.3.1828
DISMAN-EVENT-MIB::sysUpTimeInstance = Timeticks: (2194299) 6:05:42.99
SNMPv2-MIB::sysContact.0 = STRING: CSS
SNMPv2-MIB::sysName.0 = STRING: IMM-FI1-A
SNMPv2-MIB::sysLocation.0 = STRING: RTP