Panorama Uptime Test

In most production environments, it is essential to monitor the uptime of critical network devices in the infrastructure. By tracking the uptime of each of the devices, administrators can determine what percentage of time a device has been up. Comparing this value with service level targets, administrators can determine the most trouble-prone areas of the infrastructure.

In some environments, administrators may schedule periodic reboots of their network devices. By knowing that a specific device has been up for an unusually long time, an administrator may come to know that the scheduled reboot task is not working on a device.

This Panorama Uptime test monitors the uptime of the target Palo Alto Panorama.

Target of the test: Palo Alto Panorama

Agent deploying the test: A Remote Agent

Outputs of the test: One set of results for Palo Alto Panorama that is being monitored.

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter	Description
Test period	How often should the test be executed.
Host	The IP address of the target host to be monitored.
Port	Specify the port at which the specified host listens to.
API Key	The eG agent collects the required metrics from the target Palo Alto Panorama by executing API commands using XML API and pulls out critical metrics. In order to collect metrics, the eG agent should be provided with a valid API key.
SSL	By default, this flag is set to Yes indicating that the SSL (Secured Socket Layer) is used to connect to the target Palo Alto Panorama. If not so, set the SSL flag to No .

Measurements made by the test

Measurement

Description

Measurement Unit

Interpretation

Has the system been rebooted?

Indicates whether the panorama has been rebooted or not.

The values reported by this measure and its numeric equivalent are mentioned in the table below:

Measure Value	Numeric Value
No	0
Yes	1

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the uptime status of the target Palo Alto Panorama. However, in the graph of this measure, states will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents only - i.e., 0 or 1.

Uptime during the last measure period

Indicates the time period that the panorama has been up since the last time this test ran.

Seconds

If the device has not been rebooted during the last measurement period and the agent has been running continuously, this value will be equal to the measurement period. If the panorama was rebooted during the last measurement period, this value will be less than the measurement period of the test. For example, if the measurement period is 300 secs, and if the panorama was rebooted 120 secs back, this metric will report a value of 120 seconds. The accuracy of this metric is dependent on the measurement period - the smaller the measurement period, greater the accuracy.

Total uptime of the system

Indicates the total time that the device has been up since its last reboot.

Minutes

Administrators may wish to be alerted if the panorama has been running without a reboot for a very long period. Setting a threshold for this metric allows administrators to determine such conditions.