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Monitoring
Monitoring Policies
Cisco Prime Infrastructure uses monitoring policies to monitor devices against the thresholds you specify. When
the thresholds that you specify are reached, Cisco Prime Infrastructure issues an alarm.
By default, Cisco Prime Infrastructure polls:
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Device health metrics on supported routers, switches and hubs. Storage devices and Cisco UCS series
devices are not monitored by the default health policy.
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Port group health metrics.
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Interface health metrics on WAN interface groups, AVC, and Cisco UCS.
Note: Cisco Prime Infrastructure uses monitoring policies only for wired devices.
Choose Monitor -> Monitoring Tools -> Monitoring Policies -> Auto monitoring. Cisco Prime Infrastructure
polls SNMP objects to gather monitoring information for the device and interface parameters.
Figure 56. Auto Monitoring
You can add new monitoring policies to monitor network device metrics and alert you of changing conditions before
the issues impact their operation. Choose Monitor > Monitoring Tools > Monitoring Policies > My Policies.
Then click Add. We can select the Policy Types, and configure the parameters and thresholds, and click
“Save
and Activate
” to activate the policy on the selected devices.
Figure 57. Monitoring Policy