My chat with jtac ended with blaming the monitoring SW, guys at check mk
blamed juniper thou someone would look at the problem if we paid!

On 19 Aug 2016 4:28 p.m., "Catalin Dominte - Nocsult Ltd" <
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> I did talk to Juniper TAC about this, and there is no workaround their
> weird MIB implementation. Filters are your friend, and NMSs like Observiu /
> LibreNMS which poll everything they can get their hands on are not
> necessarily your best friend here. Unless you can turn off specific modules
> that is.
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> > On 17 Aug 2016, at 16:53, raf <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Le 17/08/2016 à 17:28, Catalin Dominte a écrit :
> >> I usually create a snmp filter to avoid polling interfaces ending in
> .0. If you poll an ex2200 / 3300 / 4200 it spends a long time polling the
> ifTable and ifxTable. The polling time is reduced considerably if .0
> interfaces are dropped and I can poll the device every 5 minutes.
> >>
> >
> > Yes snmp request can kill the control plane of EXs. For example
> Observium was killing my ex4550 (causing ldp sessions to drop and so on). I
> still consider that completely ridiculous...
> >
> > With correct snmp filter the situation is less worse, but I still have
> to patch the Observium poller to let some breathes to my ex(s).
> > OK the Observium poller is quite aggressive (or stupid depend of the
> point of view :).
> >
> >
> >>> What is everyone using to monitor their EX2200/VC stacks?
> >>>
> >
> > I've made some ugly scripts in python to check via ssh the output of
> "show virtual-chassis".
> >
> >>> We are using check_mk to monitor our network which is great, however
> due to
> >>> the way it polls or due to the low power of the ex2200 I'm unable to
> >>> monitor all the individual interfaces.
> >
> > Check-mk is great, but do lot of snmpwalk to check network devices. (If
> I had time I will take a look to patch and make it use an interfaces cache)
> >
> > --
> > Raphael Mazelier
> >
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