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English Support => General Support => Topic started by: Network_Monkey on July 31, 2019, 12:38:42 PM

Title: Status of DCI
Post by: Network_Monkey on July 31, 2019, 12:38:42 PM
Hi guys,

I am getting an alarm as below from one of my switch in the network.

"Status of DCI 7073 (SNMP: .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.11.0) changed to UNSUPPORTED"

Do you know what it is and what to do to clear this alarm?


Thanks
Title: Re: Status of DCI
Post by: Tursiops on August 01, 2019, 01:45:06 AM
That's a standard OID for CPU usage (more precise for "CPU Idle").

The unsupported alert means that you have a DCI on your node that tries to query the above OID and NetXMS isn't getting a response back.
That could be because:
- the device really doesn't support that OID
- the device is currently unreachable but NetXMS hasn't worked that out yet
- the device is having a temporary issue dealing with the request
- some SNMP packet(s) got lost in transit
If it's a temporary issue, the DCI should at some point change back to supported.

At our end, we simply disabled the event processing policy for unsupported DCIs as we are making heavy use of templates and some devices not supporting some DCI happens often enough to make unsupported DCI events a nuisance that drowns out other alerts. It really depends on your setup though.
Title: Re: Status of DCI
Post by: Network_Monkey on August 01, 2019, 12:03:50 PM
Tursiops,

Thanks for the detail explanation.

That's been really helpful.