Create watcher for F5 devices

[Alvaro Garcia]

Hi everyone,

our customer asked for new Spectrum alarm for F5 devices when Spectrum gets "changes pending" or "sync failed"  into this OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.14.1.4

we got one device as example into MIB tools and we did a MIB query

we want to create a watch rule for this attribute 0xff002de and when value are "changes pending" or "sync failed" spectrum creates a new alarm







how can do it? 


BR

[Silvio Okamoto]

Why don't you monitor the value of sysCmSyncStatusId? You could generate an alarm when the value is different from 3.

sysCmSyncStatusId OBJECT-TYPE sysCmSyncStatusId OBJECT-TYPE 
SYNTAX INTEGER {
unknown(0),
syncing(1),
needManualSync(2),
inSync(3),
syncFailed(4),
syncDisconnected(5),
standalone(6),
awaitingInitialSync(7),
incompatibleVersion(8),
partialSync(9)
}
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The sync status ID on the system. unknown - the device is disconnected from the device group; syncing - the device is joining the device group or has requested changes from device group or inconsistent with the group; needManualSync - changes have been made on the device not syncd to the device group; inSync - the device is consistent with the device group; syncFailed - the device is inconsistent with the device group, requires user intervention; syncDisconnected - the device is not connected to any peers;  standalone - the device is in a standalone configuration; awaitingInitialSync - the device is waiting for initial sync; incompatibleVersion - the device's version is incompatible with rest of the devices in the device group; partialSync - some but not all devices successfully received the last sync."
::= { sysCmSyncStatus 1 }

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Technical Support Engineer IV
Broadcom Inc
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[Alvaro Garcia]

Thanks for suggestions Silvio,

I tried to make this watcher but I think that it is not OK 

Could you help me? Thanks in advance ;)

[Silvio Okamoto]

First I mapped the sysCmSyncStatusId to a custom attribute ID.

Then I created the watch. This is just an example, you can do on your own. You may want to monitor different values.

Activate the selected watch.

Watch is being activated.

Watch is violated and a Minor alarm is generated.

This is the generated alarm.

Here is the event message:

Here is the current value of sysCmSyncStatusId attribute.

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Technical Support Engineer IV
Broadcom Inc
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[Silvio Okamoto]

If you are getting this: SPC-WCH-20072: This is a user defined error

Try the following this KB article:
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=49738

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Technical Support Engineer IV
Broadcom Inc
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[Alvaro Garcia]

Thanks a lot for suggestion but it is not working right on my environment

I tried to do this

And I tried to do this too

It is couple of attributes that we have into our Spectrum

Thanks in advance for your help Silvio!

[Silvio Okamoto]

Try removing the .# characters.

Example: ATTR(0xfff002e0)

Also change the Comparison rule to: != ( ≠  -  different)

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Technical Support Engineer IV
Broadcom Inc
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[Alvaro Garcia]

Hi Silvio,

thanks so much for your suggestions, we could create watcher for our F5

I´d like to inform you that we migrate Spectrum from 10.2 to 10.4.1 version and we detected that Spectrum loaded old legacy database and may be for this reason we got duplicate events. 

Thanks again for your help.

BR