Network Management

Multicast Routing Resource Error in NPM

The article briefly describes the steps to check and address when encountering an error for the Top 10 Multicast Traffic Resource on the Orion Web Console

First published date

11/14/2018 1:35 PM

Last published date

8/19/2020 8:17 PM

Overview

When accessing the Orion Web Console, the Top 10 Multicast Traffic Resource yields the following error on the NPM Summary view:

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OrionWeb.log show the following errors,
ERROR MulticastRouting - Multicast service exception:
System.OverflowException: Value was either too large or too small for an Int32.
   at System.Convert.ToInt32(Double value)
   at System.Single.System.IConvertible.ToInt32(IFormatProvider provider)
   at System.Convert.ToInt32(Object value)
   at MulticastRouting.GetMulticastTopXXTraffic(PagingStatus pagingStatus, MulticastRoutingTableTopXXConfiguration configParameters)
 

Product section

Network Performance Monitor

Cause

Multicast routing resource is crashing from a device that sends high values.

Resolution

Run the following query in the Database Manager or SQL Server Management Studio to identify which node is causing this issue :

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SELECT n.NodeID, n.IP_Address, n.Caption, mr.InBps FROM NPM_Multicast_RoutingTable mr
JOIN NPM_Multicast_GroupNodes mg ON (mr.MulticastGroupNodeID=mg.MulticastGroupNodeID)
JOIN Nodes n ON (mg.NodeID=n.NodeID)
ORDER By mr.InBps desc

The node causing the issue should appear at the top with a high value for InBps.

Try any of the following:​

  • Disable the Multicast Routing of the node (appearing with a high value for InBps) via List Resources Management and re-enable it again

  • Delete and re-add the node (showing the high value for InBps) in NPM