What is Smart Monitoring and Alerting (SMA)

Smart Monitoring and Alerting (SMA) helps monitor and detect important events or conditions in real-time. SMA provides notifications and helps perform the required actions.

SMA feature is a registration-based feature. You can register this feature when you

  • receive SMA feature status notification,
  • restart the switch, or
  • enable or disable the feature.

What are the benefits of SMA

Benefit Description
Unified Monitoring

Single feature that enables monitoring of all aspects of the switch.
Timely Detection
  • Real time continuous monitoring of data streams and system attributes for errors and anomalies in counters.
  • Only port counters and protocol counters are monitored for unexpected patterns.
Proactive Notification
  • Notifications or alerts are sent by SMA whenever an event of interest is detected.
  • Alerts such as snmp-notification, system logs or OBFL logs.
Ease of Configuration
  • Easy to configure the SMA feature by using the building blocks such as the default policy or entity groups.
Maintain System Health
  • SMA helps in maintainin the system health by constantly monitoring the switch that enable in timely actions
History of Events
  • SMA maintains a history of events and aims to provide an overall system health report.
Customization of priorities and thresholds
  • SMA provides flexibility to set custom thresholds, priorities or conditions based on specific requirements.
  • Define thresholds based on understanding of the system,
  • Enables tailored monitoring and alerting such as configuring the monitoring for per port.