Generic Ethernet Switch

Description

This connector discovers the enclosure and Ethernet ports of a system equipped with an MIB-2 standard SNMP Agent.

hardware network

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• Aruba
• BrocadeSwitch
• CiscoEntitySensor
• CiscoEthernetSwitch
• ExtremeNetworks
• F5BigIP
• FibreAllianceSwitch
• HPProcurve
• Juniper
• MIB2Switch
• SunXsigoSwitch

Supersedes

This connector supersedes:

• MIB2

Target

Typical platforms: SNMP, Arista

Operating system: Network Device

Prerequisites

Leverages: MIB-2 SNMP

Technology and protocols: SNMP

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t network -c +GenericSwitchEnclosure --snmp v2c --community public

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: network
        connectors: [ +GenericSwitchEnclosure ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          snmp:
            version: v2c # Read documentation for v1, v2c and v3
            community: public # or probably something more secure

Connector Activation Criteria

The Generic Ethernet Switch connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• An SNMP GetNext on the OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1 must return a non-empty value

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
enclosure	hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}	id name type
network	hw.errors{hw.type="network"} hw.network.bandwidth.limit hw.network.dropped{network.io.direction="receive"} hw.network.dropped{network.io.direction="transmit"} hw.network.io{direction="receive"} hw.network.io{direction="transmit"} hw.network.packets{direction="receive"} hw.network.packets{direction="transmit"} hw.network.up hw.status{hw.type="network", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="network", state="present"}	device_type hw.network.alias hw.network.name hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name physical_address physical_address_type