Browsing Equalizer Configurations Using Snmp - Coyote Point Systems E350GX Installation And Administration Manual

Chapter 7: Monitoring Equalizer Operation

Browsing Equalizer Configurations using SNMP

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an internet standard that allows a management station to
monitor the status of a device over the network. SNMP organizes information about the Equalizer and provides a
standard way to help gather that information. Using SNMP requires:
• An SNMP agent running on the system to be monitored.
• A Management Information Base (MIB) database on the system to be monitored.
• An SNMP management station running on the same or another system.
An SNMP agent and MIB databases are provided on Equalizer Models E350
SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c.
A management station is not provided with Equalizer and must be obtained from a third party supplier. The
management station is often used primarily to browse through the MIB tree, and so is sometimes called a MIB
browser. One such management station that is available in a free personal edition is the iReasoning MIB Browser,
available from
http://www.ireasoning.com
A MIB database is a hierarchical tree of variables whose values describe the state of the monitored device. A
management station that want to browse the MIB database on a device sends a request to the SNMP agent running
on the device. The agent queries the MIB database for the variables requested by the management station, and then
sends a reply to the management station.
With SNMP, you can monitor the following information from the Equalizer MIBs:
Static configuration information, such as:
• Device name and Model
• Software version
• Internal and external IP addresses and netmasks
• Default gateway
• Failover alias
Equalizer's failover details
• Sibling Name
• Sibling Status (Primary or Secondary)
Dynamic configuration information, such as:
• Failover status
• NAT enabled
• L4 configuration state
• L7 configuration state
• Server Health check status
• Email status notification
• Cluster parameters (timeouts, buffers)
• Server parameters
Equalizer status
• L4 Statistics
• L7 Statistics
Equalizer cluster configuration
• L4 or L7 protocol of cluster
• Load balancing policy for cluster.
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