17-3
User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
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Chapter
17






Monitoring

Your

Network
Device
Monitoring

Features
Related
Topics


Device
Monitoring

Features,

page
17-3


Using
Dashboards

to

Monitor

Devices
and
Virtual

Contexts,
page
17-4


Monitoring
Devices,

page
17-24
Device
Monitoring

Features
ANM
provides

several

features

that

allow

you

to

monitor

your

devices

when

you

click

Monitor:


Dashboards—Operate
as
a
central
location

for

you

to

view

device

and

context

monitoring

results
and
track

potential

i

ssues.

There

are

three

types

of

Dashboards

in

ANM:

ANM/Group

Dashboard,
ACE
Dashboard,

and

ACE

Virtual

Context

Dashboard.

Each

Dashboard

provides

quick

access

to

all
relevant
monitoring

pages.

See

“Using

Dashboards

to

Monitor

Devices

and

Virtual

Cont

exts”
section
on

page

17-4 .


System
View—Provides

device

information

and

a
general

overview

of


your

system

as

a


whole,
including
High

Availability

(HA)

information

and

licensing

information.

System

View

is

available
only
for

CSS

and

CSM

devices.

See

“Monitoring

the

System”

section

on

pa

ge

17-25 .


Resource
Usage—Provides

resource

usage

information
on
connections

and

features.

See
“Monitoring
Resource

Usage”

section

on

pa

ge

17-26 .

Resource

usage

is

not

available

for

CSS

or
CSM
devices.


Traffic
Summary—Provides

traffic

information

for
your

devices.

Traffic

Summary

is

available

only
for
the

ACE

module,

ACE

appliance,

and

CSS.

See

“Monitoring

Traffic”

section

on

page

17-30 .


Load
Balancing—Provides

virtual
server
information

and

load

balancing

statistics.

See
“Monitoring
Load
Balancing”

section

on

page

17-33

and

“Monitoring

Load

Balancing

Statistics”

section

on
page
17-41 .
CSS
Configure
parameters

on

the

CSS

devices

that
you
want

ANM

to

monitor.

You

cannot

use
ANM
to

configure

the

CSS.


All
devices

must

have

a

routable

IP

address

from
the
ANM.


For
CSS

devices,
you

must

enable

SNMPv2c

with
a
matching

SNMP

community

string

between
ANM
and

the

devices

to

be

polled.

(See

the
“Configuring
CSS

Primary

Attributes”

section

on
page
5-35 .)


For
CSM
devices,

you
must

enable

SNMPv2c
with
a

matching

SNMP

community

string

on

the
Cat6K
chassis

in

which

the

CSM

resides.

(See

the
“Configuring
CSM

Pr
imary
Attributes”

section

on
page
5-34 .)


Before
using

the

Monitoring

functions,

you

must
enable
monitoring

on

all

devices

t

hat

you

want
ANM
to

monitor

(see

the

“Setting

Polling
Parameters”
section

on

pa

ge

17-46 ).
CSM
Configure
parameters

on

the

Cat6K

chassis

(in
which
the

CSM

resides)

that

you

want

ANM

to
monitor.
You

cannot

use

ANM

to

configure

the
CSM.
Table
17-1
Configuring
Devices

for

Monitoring

(continued)
Device
Type
How
to

Configure
Parameters
to

Configure