How to configure the network monitoring usage and how the CDM probe fetches this data

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management On-Premise (Nimsoft / UIM)
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

This document can be used to configure Network Traffic Monitoring using CDM probe Raw configure option and the way the probe calculates the data using the probe in different environments (Windows, Unix).

Note: This document can only be used when you do not have an access to Admin Console as this feature IS available through the Admin Console. 

How to configure the network monitoring usage and how the CDM probe fetches the inbound/outbound/aggregated data

Environment

• Any UIM version
• CDM probe 6.30 or later

Resolution

1. Open the CDM probe in Raw Configure mode

                    

 

2. Click on “New Section” and make sure you check the “Create at root”.

        Provide the name “nic aggr” and Click on “OK”
                      

3. Add the follow as a Key and Value to enable QOS.

         interval = 5 min

         qos_network_bytes_send_rate = yes

         qos_network_bytes_total_rate = yes

         qos_network_bytes_recv_rate = yes

4. Once we configured with above parameters, here is how the admin console maps.

             

 

5.In case if you would like to enable alarms, you may add the following fields also.

       

Note: You must add the threshold as per the requirement.

 

Additional Information

Here is how the probe calculates the inbound/outbound/aggregated network usage:

                        

 

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/GA/monitoring/systems-and-service-response/cdm-cpu-disk-memory-performance-monitoring/cdm-ac-configuration.html

 

 

If you would prefer to use a separate probe for network interface performance, see the nic_monitor probe:

Network Interface Performance Metrics