Cisco Nexus switches
Cisco has long been a major player in enterprise infrastructure. As the workloads running on Cisco servers and through Cisco switches are becoming increasingly virtualized, the necessity of bringing them into a combined view with the virtual layer has heightened.
A Cisco Nexus switch
The management pack for Cisco Nexus corrals Nexus series switches via SNMP and associates them with VMs:
The Cisco Nexus Relationship dashboard
The Cisco Nexus Relationship dashboard gets down to business, showing you the status of the ports and the Virtual Machines reliant on those ports. Here, we can see performance data such as port traffic aggregated for the switch, or we can dig into port-level metrics:
The Cisco Nexus Switch Overview dashboard
For configuration, the Cisco Nexus Switch Overview dashboard is the answer. Here, we find alerts for outages and misconfigurations. Port throughput statistics are also available below the folds.
