HPE H3C Switch extension
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Monitor your HPE H3C switches using SNMP.
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Overview
The HPE H3C extension leverages SNMP to gather performance and health metrics from your H3C switches every minute. This data is seamlessly integrated into Infrastructure & Operations, offering quick, actionable insights at a glance.
Use cases
- Quickly identify problematic interfaces that are dropping or corrupting packets.
- Pinpoint hardware faults, misconfigurations or congestion issues affecting performance or reliability.
- Track real-time and historical bandwidth usage to understand traffic patterns.
- Monitor memory consumption on H3C switches to detect potential leaks or resource exhaustion.
Compatibility information
- SNMP v2c or SNMP v3
- Dynatrace version: 1.310 or higher
- ActiveGate version: 1.310 or higher
Activation and setup
Activate the extension in your environment Web UI using the Dynatrace Hub. Provide the necessary device configuration, and Dynatrace will automatically deploy the extension and begin monitoring.
For more details, see Manage SNMP extensions.
Details
The extension package contains:
- SNMP data source configuration for metric ingestion
- Topology definitions for HPE H3C switches
- Dashboards offering monitoring overviews
- Infrastructure & Operations entries for each created entity
The extension is built on top of the SNMP data source that is part of the Dynatrace Extensions framework. For more details, see Extensions.
Licensing and costs
There is no charge to use the extension. You are only charged for the data that the extension ingests.
The HPE H3C Switch extension ingests custom metrics, which consume Davis Data Units (DDUs) (Dynatrace classic license) or Metrics powered by Grail (DPS), according to your license model.
Calculations are based on the assumption that you monitor all metrics for every feature set every minute. Metric data points per minute per switch:
4 + (8 * n_interfaces)
Dynatrace Platform Subscription
In the Dynatrace Platform Subscription, metric ingestion consumes Metrics powered by Grail according to the number of ingested metric data points.
To calculate the approximate yearly consumption, apply the following calculation: <metric data points per minute> * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 365 days.
Dynatrace classic license
In the classic licensing model, metric ingestion consumes Davis Data Units (DDUs) at the rate of .001 DDUs per metric data point. Multiply the above formula for annual data points by .001 to estimate annual DDU usage.
The DDU cost above does not include any possible log events or custom events that are triggered by the extension. For more information, see DDU events.
Feature sets
When activating your extension using a monitoring configuration, you can limit monitoring to one of the feature sets. To work properly, the extension has to collect at least one metric after the activation.
In highly segmented networks, feature sets can reflect the segments of your environment. Then, when you create a monitoring configuration, you can select a feature set and a corresponding ActiveGate group that can connect to this particular segment.
All metrics that aren't categorized into any feature set are considered to be the default and are always reported.
A metric inherits the feature set of a subgroup, which in turn inherits the feature set of a group. Also, the feature set defined on the metric level overrides the feature set defined on the subgroup level, which in turn overrides the feature set defined on the group level.
default
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.sysuptime | — |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.cpu_usage | — |
| Used memory | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.hp_switch.memory_used | The amount of memory, in bytes, used by the HP Switch device |
| Total memory | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.hp_switch.memory_total | The amount of memory, in bytes, available on the HP Switch device |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.status | — |
Interfaces
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.bytes_in.count | — |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.bytes_out.count | — |
| Inbound errors | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.in.errors.count | Number of inbound packets/transmission units with errors |
| Inbound discards | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.in.discards.count | Number of inbound packets discarded |
| Outbound errors | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.out.errors.count | Number of outbound packets/transmission units with errors |
| Outbound discards | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.out.discards.count | Number of outbound packets discarded |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.lastchange | — |
| Interface speed | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.speed | Speed of the network interface in MegaBits per second. |
Advanced interfaces
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.in.multicast_pkts.count | — |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.out.multicast_pkts.count | — |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.in.broadcast_pkts.count | — |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.out.broadcast_pkts.count | — |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.in.ucast_pkts.count | — |
| — | com.dynatrace.extension.network_device.if.out.ucast_pkts.count | — |
