Nexus 7000 SNMP Polling of interfaces within VDC's ?

Anthony O Warren · ‎11-06-2014

Hi all,

I hope this is a relatively easy question to answer.

I have some Nexus 7010's that I need to monitor via SNMP. Currently, we can poll the switch and get some info back, however we only see physical interfaces that belong to the Admin VDC.

In order to be able to poll interfaces within a non-Admin VDC, do I have to configure SNMP communities (and an IP to respond to the poll) within each VDC ? Or is there a way to poll them from the Admin VDC?

bash-2.05$ snmpwalk -v 2c -c public <ipaddr-in-admin-vdc> .1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.1
IF-MIB::ifName.83886080 = STRING: mgmt0
< **** Eth 8/1 - 8/15 assigned to other VDC's   ****>
IF-MIB::ifName.439939072 = STRING: Ethernet8/16
IF-MIB::ifName.439943168 = STRING: Ethernet8/17
IF-MIB::ifName.439947264 = STRING: Ethernet8/18
IF-MIB::ifName.439951360 = STRING: Ethernet8/19
IF-MIB::ifName.439955456 = STRING: Ethernet8/20
IF-MIB::ifName.439959552 = STRING: Ethernet8/21
IF-MIB::ifName.439963648 = STRING: Ethernet8/22
IF-MIB::ifName.439967744 = STRING: Ethernet8/23
IF-MIB::ifName.439971840 = STRING: Ethernet8/24
IF-MIB::ifName.439975936 = STRING: Ethernet8/25
IF-MIB::ifName.439980032 = STRING: Ethernet8/26

Thanks,

Anthony

Reza Sharifi · ‎11-06-2014

Hi Anthony,

Think of each VDC as a separate switch. So you need to configure SNMP per VDC.

HTH