SevOne SDN Collector Prerequisites and Common Questions

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This document provides a list of questions that SevOne requires the user to respond to prior to a fresh install. For details on compatibility, please refer to Release Notes SevOne SDN Collector Monitoring Solution > section Compatibility Matrix.
Important: Please provide all of the following details separately for each collector installation.
  Prerequisites for SDN Collector Response
1 Have you checked the license capacity on NMS to accommodate the devices and objects which will be created by the collector? If Yes, please provide the total number of devices/objects and other information available in your setup in the Response column. NOTE: If you are unable to locate this information, please contact your SDN Cisco ACI System Administrator directly. Devices/Objects Total Number
  • APICs:
  • Spine Switches:
  • Leaf Switches:
  • Physical Interfaces:
  • Port Channels:
  • Tenants:
  • Application Profiles:
  • Endpoint Groups:
  • Endpoints:
  • Static Endpoint:
  • Bridge Domains:
  • Private Network (VRFs):
  • Contracts:
  • Hypervisors:
  • Virtual Machines:
  • External Switches:
  • Tunnel:
2 Do you want to distribute devices created by the collector among all or some peers of the NMS cluster? NOTE: If you want to distribute devices to some peers only then, please provide the IP addresses / peer names of those selected peers in the Response column. <All / Some> <If Some, please enter IP addresses / peer names of selected peers>
3 Do you want to skip adding a prefix to the device names of Spines, Leaves, and APICs? Please circle one option in the Response column. Yes / No
4 Please provide the details of an individual APIC for each site along with the site name and device name prefix in case you do not want to collect information from multi-site manager. In case of multiple sites, please provide details for each site. NOTE: Please ensure all passwords are available prior to the session. Site-1 Protocol: <enter protocol here> IP Address: <enter IP address here> Username: <enter Username here> Password Availability: <Yes / No> Site Name: <enter site name here> Device Name Prefix: <enter device name prefix here> Site-2 Site-3 . . Site-N
5 Do you want to filter and create alarms only for specific ACI faults? If Yes, please provide codes for those faults in the Response column. NOTE: To search for fault codes, please refer to https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/all/syslog/guide/b_ACI_System_Messages_Guide.html <enter codes for faults here>
6 Do you want to modify the default mapping of severity? If Yes, please provide mapping details in the Response column. NOTE: The following table represents the default mapping for severity. APIC to SevOne NMS Severity Mapping for Alerts
APIC NMS
Critical Alert
Major Critical
Minor Error
Warning Waring
Info Notice
Cleared Notice
<enter mapping details here> <Accepted keywords are emergency, alert, critical, error, warning, notice, info, and debug>
Fault Code APIC NMS