CISCO-SLB-HEALTH-MON-MIB

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Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Last Updated: 2008-06-26

Category: Cisco Devices, Quality of Service, Web and Application Servers

Description: Manages health monitoring probes and real server availability tracking for Cisco Server Load Balancing platforms.

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What Is CISCO-SLB-HEALTH-MON-MIB?

CISCO-SLB-HEALTH-MON-MIB extends CISCO-SLB-EXT-MIB to define health-monitoring probes for Cisco Server Load Balancing (SLB) devices, which distribute incoming packets/connections across a farm of real servers, firewalls, or caches. It belongs to the load-balancing/high-availability technology area and exposes probe configuration data: probe type, interval, retry count, failed-interval, receive/TCP-open timeouts, and alternate destination or DNS-domain targets used by the probe. Its monitoring purpose is to continuously verify the software/service reachability of each real server behind the load balancer — a probe repeatedly timing out or failing indicates that server or service instance is unhealthy and should be pulled from rotation, which is core to preventing traffic from being sent to a dead backend. It is an extension of, and dependent on, CISCO-SLB-EXT-MIB for the underlying server-farm and real-server object model. It is typically deployed on Cisco SLB-capable switches/appliances (e.g. Catalyst with CSM, or ACE modules) front-ending server farms in data centers. Engineers can download the CISCO-SLB-HEALTH-MON-MIB file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

IPNetwork Monitor allows you to monitor SNMP objects defined in CISCO-SLB-HEALTH-MON-MIB. Use the built-in SNMP Monitoring Browser to explore available variables, view their current values and descriptions, and select the objects you want to monitor. You can then create SNMP monitors, configure thresholds, and receive alerts when monitored values change.

Supported Devices

  • Cisco Server Load Balancing switch/module (e.g. CSM/ACE)

Monitoring Examples

An operator would poll cslbxProbeCfgTable's cslbxProbeType, cslbxProbeInterval, and cslbxProbeRetries per cslbxProbeName to confirm a health probe (e.g. TCP or DNS-based) is configured to run frequently enough to catch outages quickly. If cslbxProbeFailedInterval and cslbxProbeReceiveTimeout or cslbxProbeTcpOpenTimeout values are being exceeded repeatedly for a given probe tied to cshMonSfarmProbes, that signals the associated real server is failing health checks and the SLB device should have already taken it out of the active server farm.

What Can Be Monitored

  • probe type and interval
  • probe retry/failure thresholds
  • receive and TCP-open timeouts
  • real server health/probe status
Imported Objects

From CISCO-SLB-EXT-MIB

SlbFunctionNameString
SlbUrlString
cslbxServerProbesOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-SLB-MIB

SlbServerString
slbEntityOBJECT-TYPE
slbServerFarmNameOBJECT-TYPE

From CISCO-SMI

ciscoMgmtOBJECT-IDENTITY

From CISCO-TC

CiscoPort

From INET-ADDRESS-MIB

InetAddress
InetAddressType
InetPortNumber

From SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB

SnmpAdminString

From SNMPv2-CONF

MODULE-COMPLIANCE
NOTIFICATION-GROUP
OBJECT-GROUP

From SNMPv2-SMI

Counter32
Gauge32
MODULE-IDENTITY
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECT-TYPE
Unsigned32

From SNMPv2-TC

DateAndTime
RowStatus
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
TimeInterval
TruthValue

How to Use in IPNetwork Monitor

Example using cshMonProbeTotalSentProbes OID:

Select a Cisco Server Load Balancing switch/module (CSM/ACE) as the target host to create a monitor — the SNMP service should be up and running on it. Click New Monitor, then check SNMP Custom on the Favorites tab, click Next, and confirm the host. On the next page, click Select... to open the built-in SNMP MIB Browser and type cshMonProbeTotalSentProbes into the Find box to locate it in the OID tree, selecting the specific row/instance you want to monitor since this is a table column, then select it and click OK. This object identifies the number of probes sent to the real servers. On the monitor's Main parameters page you can set the target's SNMP port (default 161), credentials, polling interval, and other settings — see the SNMP Monitor help for details. On the State conditions and Alerting tabs, configure when the monitor should change state and trigger an alert; since this is a Counter32-type OID, Value bounds is the most useful condition here — trigger an alert if the counter increases sharply between polls relative to its normal baseline, since an unexpected spike often reflects a real change in traffic or activity. Click Finish to create the monitor; you can adjust any parameter later.
OIDs

RFC description

Monitors server load-balancing health probes and device availability for Cisco server load balancing systems.

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