Cisco CDS

The Cisco CDS connector monitors a Cisco Systems manager unit through SNMP.

About

The connector polls relevant information from the device every 10 seconds.

Installation and Configuration

Creation

SNMP Main Connection

This connector uses a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) connection and requires the following input during element creation:

SNMP CONNECTION:

• IP address/host: The polling IP of the device.

SNMP Settings:

• Port number: The port of the connected device, by default 161.
• Get community string: The community string used when reading values from the device, by default public.
• Set community string: The community string used when setting values on the device, by default private.

Usage

This connector has three data display pages.

Health Page

This page displays the Disk Monitor, System Health Monitor and Interface Table, as well as the Server Master Slave Status.

Service Page

This page displays several tables: the Services Monitor, RTSP Client, Linux File System Usage, Bandwidth Reporting Array and Routing Table. It also displays the number of Broken Assets.

Traps Page

This page displays single-trap parameters containing the information regarding the previous received trap: Managed Service Architecture, Maximum Disk Usage Threshold, Maximum Port Loss Threshold, Setup IP, Control IP, Connection Failed, and Linux Partition. You can clear each alarm by pressing the corresponding Clear Alarm button.