Monitoring multicast groups and routes

You can monitor multicast groups and routes to determine whether there are any events on the devices in those groups and routes.

About this task

PIM groups, IGMP groups, and IP Multicast routes can only be monitored if the discovery has been configured to discover them. Views for these groups and routes are created automatically; you can also create them manually.

To monitor multicast groups, complete the following tasks.

Procedure

  1. Click the Incident icon and select Network Availability > Network Views > Libraries.
    • In the navigation tree on the left of the widget, click the + symbol to expand the IGMP Groups node. A list of the IGMP groups that have been discovered is displayed.
    • In the navigation tree on the left of the widget, click the + symbol to expand the PIM network node. A list of the PIM groups that have been discovered is displayed.
    • In the navigation tree on the left of the widget, click the + symbol to expand the Multicast Routing MDTs node. A list of the IP multicast routes that have been discovered is displayed. Multicast Distribution Trees (MDTs) are named according to the (source, group address) notation. For example, an (S,G) notation of (172.20.1.6,224.0.0.1) shows that a device with an IP address of 172.20.1.6 is a source sending data to the 224.0.0.1 group.
  2. Determine the most severe event in each group based on the associated event status icon.