Load Balancer Monitoring with snmpcollector

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)
• Unified Infrastructure Management for Mainframe
• CA Unified Infrastructure Management SaaS (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Need to monitor below parameters for load balancer. Please suggest how to monitor these metrics through UIM.

Concurrent sessions

Management Sessions

Proxy Connections/Sessions

NAT Translation

Total SSL connections/sessions

Environment

Release : 20.3

Component : UNIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE MGMT

Cause

- Guidance

Resolution

For Loadbalancer monitoring such as the metrics you listed:

- Concurrent sessions
- Management Sessions
- Proxy Connections/Sessions
- NAT Translation
- Total SSL connections/sessions

What metrics are available would be dependent upon the Vendor, Device Model and MIB(s)/dependent MIBs.

Search for the vendor/device/model at->

  https://devicesupport.broadcom.com/ 

As an example for an F5 Loadbalancer and specific device model, you can search the device support site to see if the metrics are already available for the given model. If not you can request certification or use self-certification

1. SNMP Device Self-Certification
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/GA/alphabetical-probe-articles/snmpcollector-snmp-data-monitoring/snmp-device-self-certification.html

2. KB Article:

An example how to create self certification for snmpcollector
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/108038/an-example-how-to-create-self-certificat.html

It will help you to know the MIBs and OIDs for the metrics you want to monitor. For example for an F5 Loadbalancer,
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K19131297

3. Official Device Certification Request Process
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/9900/uim-snmpcollector-device-certification.html