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Setting up logs on Cisco Nexus

In this article I will give an example of setting up logs on Cisco Nexus switches.

SNMP OID for Cisco Nexus

For example, I will take Cisco Nexus 3064 (N3K-C3064PQ-10GX) and make a template for it in Zabbix, I will briefly describe the main SNMP OID/MIB that I used:

linkFlapErrDisabled on Cisco Nexus

I once noticed that the port is periodically disconnected on the Cisco Nexus N3K-C3064PQ-10GX switch, there are a lot of records in the logs that the link was falling and rising, I looked at the status of the port:

Solution channel-group command failed: port not compatible Duplex Mode

Once on Cisco Nexus I met errors of this type:

Cisco Nexus SNMP OID for Transceiver

Once I needed to monitor the optical signal level on the Cisco Nexus C3064PQ-10GX to prevent cable sagging, stretching and signal loss, because in this case the signal deteriorates gradually, usually I monitor the signal on the end equipment, but I came across an old BDCOM 3310B model in which there was no support DDM.

High CPU load on Cisco Nexus 3064

Once I discovered on the graphs a large burst of Multicast packets on one of the ports of the Cisco Nexus 3064 switch, while the CPU load increased to 30%, before that it was 12% with L2 traffic of 13 Gbit/s.

Cisco Nexus 3000 Series NX-OS Fundamentals Command Reference

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LACP Link Aggregation on Cisco Nexus 3064

I will give an example of configuring LAG (LACP) on a Cisco Nexus 3064.

Configuring DHCP Relay on Cisco Nexus 3064

For example, I will configure DHCPv4 Relay on Cisco N3K-C3064PQ-10GX. Initially, I configured this switch for L2, but some VLANs had to be configured as L3 and DHCPv4 Relay enabled.

Configuring Cisco N3K-C3064PQ-10GX

For example, I will configure the Cisco Nexus N3K-C3064PQ-10GX switch.