Network Management

Monitoring ASA failover nodes in Orion platform

This article describes how to monitor status of ASA failover nodes status

First published date

10/25/2018 7:57 PM

Last published date

2/15/2023 11:50 AM

Overview

Below article describes how to monitor status of ASA failover nodes status. According to vendor (Cisco) values expected are as follows:

 

1:other
2:up
3:down
4:error
5:overTemp
6:busy
7:noMedia
8:backup
9:active
10:standby

 

Ref: http://tools.cisco.com/Support/SNMP/do/BrowseOID.do?local=en&translate=Translate&objectInput=1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.147.1.2.1.1.1.3

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Product section

Network Performance Monitor

Cause

N/A

Resolution

  1. Start Universal Device Poller (UnDP)
  2. Create a new poller using the following OID(s):
    • PRIMARY: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.147.1.2.1.1.1.3.6 (Primary) This OID will need to be assigned to only the Primary ASA
    • SECONDARY: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.147.1.2.1.1.1.3.7 (Secondary) This OID will need to be assigned to only the Secondary ASA
  3. If the OID's don't work, use the SolarWinds SNMP Walk tool on the device and use 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.147.1.2.1.1.1.3 as a search to figure out what the last value is on the device. 
  4. Universal Device Poller Example should look like this:
  5. Make sure to set SNMP Get Type to GET since the default for these OID(s) is GET TABLE
  6. When setting up the Alert this is for when the Primary Fails over to Secondary so an Alert will fire:
  7. The value you can see is 10 for Standby per Cisco Documentation above. The OID is also the Custom poller that was created. 
  8. If you want to get a reset when the secondary fails over back to the primary you can do this with the reset action email.