Unified Metrics and Events Reporting

The Unified Metrics and Events Reporting feature implements Telegraf, a server-based application. Telegraf collects data from multiple standard input devices and streams it dynamically and directly to ExtremeCloud IQ, instead of using the MIBs and the SNMP traps through the ExtremeCloud IQ Agent.

The ExtremeCloud IQ Agent acts as a communication channel between ExtremeCloud IQ and Telegraf, to control and provide the required information. The system dynamically enables Telegraf when the ExtremeCloud IQ Agent associates with ExtremeCloud IQ and disables it when you disable the ExtremeCloud IQ Agent. Using the ExtremeCloud IQ Agent, ExtremeCloud IQ can dynamically:

• start and stop Telegraf
• change the URLs that Telegraf uses to report the data
• provide token-based authorization for Telegraf

Telegraf collects and reports statistics and events on the switches, such as:

• CPU utilization
• DHCP Snooping VLAN attributes
• Fabric Adjacencies
• Fan rotations per minute, pulse width modulation, failure, and recovery
• Port operational state changes
• Power over Ethernet measurements and counters
• Power Supply Units failure and recovery