You have a lot of VLAN's? You can disable certain types of polling through Observium too.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Joseph L. Brunner <joe@affirmedsystems.com
wrote:
Team,
We had some cisco switches dropping packets with 99% cpu being polled by Observium.
We had to create a view which hides some arp and routing table objects to bring the CPU back down to normal levels
snmp-server view cutdown at excluded
snmp-server view cutdown snmpUsmMIB excluded
snmp-server view cutdown snmpVacmMIB excluded
snmp-server view cutdown snmpCommunityMIB excluded
snmp-server view cutdown ip.21 excluded
snmp-server view cutdown ip.22 excluded
snmp-server community ourcomm1 view cutdown RO
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