Cisco: IPSLA PowerPack Release Notes, version 102

Version 102 of the Cisco: IPSLA PowerPack includes the addition of the "Cisco: IPSLA Operation Status" Dynamic Application and updates to event policies.

  • Minimum Required SL1 Version: 8.7.0

Before You Install or Upgrade

Ensure that you are running version 8.7.0 or later of SL1 before installing "Cisco: IPSLA" PowerPack version 102.

For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.

Installing or Upgrading the PowerPack

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack will overwrite all content in that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent the new version of the PowerPack from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields.

If you are currently using the Dynamic Applications in this PowerPack to monitor devices, collection errors might occur for one or two polling cycles during the installation of a new version. To prevent collection errors during an upgrade, you can optionally disable collection for monitored devices before performing the following steps and re-enable collection after the upgrade.

To install this PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions menu and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack modal appears.
  4. Click Browse and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPack Manager page.

For more information about using the PowerPack, see the Monitoring Switches, Routers, and Firewalls with SNMP manual.

Features

This release includes the following features:

  • Dynamic Applications that discover and collect data from Cisco IPSLA devices
  • Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when Cisco IPSLA devices meet certain status criteria
  • A sample credential for discovering Cisco IPSLA devices

Enhancements and Issues Addressed

The following enhancements and addressed issues are included this release of the "Cisco: IPSLA":

  • The "Cisco: IPSLA Operation Status" Dynamic Application was added to the PowerPack to collect round-trip time (RTT) operation status data.
  • The "Cisco: IPSLA Transaction OK Performance" Dynamic Application was updated to add the "Maximum IPSLA Transactions" threshold to allow a user to only collect data for a specific number of transactions.
  • An issue was addressed in the "Cisco: IPSLA Transaction OK Performance" Dynamic Application in which a list indexing exception was occurring.
  • The "Cisco: IPSLA ICMP Jitter Performance" Dynamic Application was updated to address an issue in which adjusting the threshold settings of a Dynamic Application metric would result in the value not appearing in the resulting event message.
  • An issue was addressed in the "Cisco: IPSLA HTTP Performance" , "Cisco: IPSLA Jitter Performance", and "Cisco: IPSLA ICMP Jitter Performance" Dynamic Applications in which "rttMonCtrlAdminIndex" was not being collected.

Known Issues

The following known issues affect version 102 of the Cisco: IPSLA PowerPack:

  • The "Cisco IPSLA Packet Loss Performance" Dynamic Application was removed from the PowerPack in version 7.7.2, but isn't being deleted during a PowerPack upgrade. If this Dynamic Application is still on a system, it should be deleted. The collection objects from that Dynamic Application were moved into "Cisco IPSLA Jitter Test Completion Stats" Dynamic Application.