Hello,
We've just started a POC project to determine if Observium is a good fit
for our environment, and so far have been very pleased with the
feature-richness and general usability of the entire system. In fact, we've
discovered several things in our environment that were immediately
addressable. Cheers!
One thing that's been a head-scratcher for us so far is the length of the
polling time for our Juniper switches...anywhere from ~2 mins for a 48 port
EX ToR switch, to 8 minutes for a two-member QFX aggregate switch. It's the
port polling that's so costly according to the output of the poller script,
around 450 seconds on the QFXs. I've tried some basic
troubleshooting...disabling MAC accounting, disabling all ports for
polling/alerting, etc...but it hasn't helped. Is there something simple I'm
missing in the config that's causing it to bog down on the port module?
Aside from the time, it's not hurting the QFXs, but our poor EX4500s
sometimes spike to 90% CPU during polling.
For context, the Observium POC system is located in the same datacenter as
the devices we're polling against, and the QFXs are 96 port 5ks, with
uplinks to our EX ToR switches. Any ideas/suggestions you have would be
much appreciated!
Also, I did add support for Baytech PDUs; if there's interest, I'd be happy
to provide the code.
Aaron
