Cisco model-driven telemetry (MDT) is an input plugin that consumes telemetry
data from Cisco IOS XR, IOS XE and NX-OS platforms. It supports TCP & GRPC
dialout transports. RPC-based transport can utilize TLS for authentication and
encryption. Telemetry data is expected to be GPB-KV (self-describing-gpb)
encoded.
The GRPC dialout transport is supported on various IOS XR (64-bit) 6.1.x and
later, IOS XE 16.10 and later, as well as NX-OS 7.x and later platforms.
The TCP dialout transport is supported on IOS XR (32-bit and 64-bit) 6.1.x and
later.
This plugin is a service input. Normal plugins gather metrics determined by the
interval setting. Service plugins start a service to listens and waits for
metrics or events to occur. Service plugins have two key differences from
normal plugins:
- The global or plugin specific
interval
setting may not apply
- The CLI options of
--test
, --test-wait
, and --once
may not produce
output for this plugin
Global configuration options
In addition to the plugin-specific configuration settings, plugins support
additional global and plugin configuration settings. These settings are used to
modify metrics, tags, and field or create aliases and configure ordering, etc.
See the CONFIGURATION.md for more details.
Configuration
# Cisco model-driven telemetry (MDT) input plugin for IOS XR, IOS XE and NX-OS platforms
[[inputs.cisco_telemetry_mdt]]
## Telemetry transport can be "tcp" or "grpc". TLS is only supported when
## using the grpc transport.
transport = "grpc"
## Address and port to host telemetry listener
service_address = ":57000"
## Grpc Maximum Message Size, default is 4MB, increase the size. This is
## stored as a uint32, and limited to 4294967295.
max_msg_size = 4000000
## Enable TLS; grpc transport only.
# tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
# tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
## Enable TLS client authentication and define allowed CA certificates; grpc
## transport only.
# tls_allowed_cacerts = ["/etc/telegraf/clientca.pem"]
## Define (for certain nested telemetry measurements with embedded tags) which fields are tags
# embedded_tags = ["Cisco-IOS-XR-qos-ma-oper:qos/interface-table/interface/input/service-policy-names/service-policy-instance/statistics/class-stats/class-name"]
## Include the delete field in every telemetry message.
# include_delete_field = false
## Define aliases to map telemetry encoding paths to simple measurement names
[inputs.cisco_telemetry_mdt.aliases]
ifstats = "ietf-interfaces:interfaces-state/interface/statistics"
## Define Property Xformation, please refer README and https://pubhub.devnetcloud.com/media/dme-docs-9-3-3/docs/appendix/ for Model details.
[inputs.cisco_telemetry_mdt.dmes]
# Global Property Xformation.
# prop1 = "uint64 to int"
# prop2 = "uint64 to string"
# prop3 = "string to uint64"
# prop4 = "string to int64"
# prop5 = "string to float64"
# auto-prop-xfrom = "auto-float-xfrom" #Xform any property which is string, and has float number to type float64
# Per Path property xformation, Name is telemetry configuration under sensor-group, path configuration "WORD Distinguished Name"
# Per Path configuration is better as it avoid property collision issue of types.
# dnpath = '{"Name": "show ip route summary","prop": [{"Key": "routes","Value": "string"}, {"Key": "best-paths","Value": "string"}]}'
# dnpath2 = '{"Name": "show processes cpu","prop": [{"Key": "kernel_percent","Value": "float"}, {"Key": "idle_percent","Value": "float"}, {"Key": "process","Value": "string"}, {"Key": "user_percent","Value": "float"}, {"Key": "onesec","Value": "float"}]}'
# dnpath3 = '{"Name": "show processes memory physical","prop": [{"Key": "processname","Value": "string"}]}'
## Additional GRPC connection settings.
[inputs.cisco_telemetry_mdt.grpc_enforcement_policy]
## GRPC permit keepalives without calls, set to true if your clients are
## sending pings without calls in-flight. This can sometimes happen on IOS-XE
## devices where the GRPC connection is left open but subscriptions have been
## removed, and adding subsequent subscriptions does not keep a stable session.
# permit_keepalive_without_calls = false
## GRPC minimum timeout between successive pings, decreasing this value may
## help if this plugin is closing connections with ENHANCE_YOUR_CALM (too_many_pings).
# keepalive_minimum_time = "5m"
Metrics
Metrics are named by the encoding path that generated the data, or by the alias
if the inputs.cisco_telemetry_mdt.aliases
config section is defined.
Metric fields are dependent on the device type and path.
Tags included in all metrics:
Additional tags (such as interface_name) may be included depending on the path.
Example Output
ifstats,path=ietf-interfaces:interfaces-state/interface/statistics,host=linux,name=GigabitEthernet2,source=csr1kv,subscription=101 in-unicast-pkts=27i,in-multicast-pkts=0i,discontinuity-time="2019-05-23T07:40:23.000362+00:00",in-octets=5233i,in-errors=0i,out-multicast-pkts=0i,out-discards=0i,in-broadcast-pkts=0i,in-discards=0i,in-unknown-protos=0i,out-unicast-pkts=0i,out-broadcast-pkts=0i,out-octets=0i,out-errors=0i 1559150462624000000
ifstats,path=ietf-interfaces:interfaces-state/interface/statistics,host=linux,name=GigabitEthernet1,source=csr1kv,subscription=101 in-octets=3394770806i,in-broadcast-pkts=0i,in-multicast-pkts=0i,out-broadcast-pkts=0i,in-unknown-protos=0i,out-octets=350212i,in-unicast-pkts=9477273i,in-discards=0i,out-unicast-pkts=2726i,out-discards=0i,discontinuity-time="2019-05-23T07:40:23.000363+00:00",in-errors=30i,out-multicast-pkts=0i,out-errors=0i 1559150462624000000
NX-OS Configuration Example
Requirement DATA-SOURCE Configuration
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Environment DME path sys/ch query-condition query-target=subtree&target-subtree-class=eqptPsuSlot,eqptFtSlot,eqptSupCSlot,eqptPsu,eqptFt,eqptSensor,eqptLCSlot
DME path sys/ch depth 5 (Another configuration option)
Environment NXAPI show environment power
NXAPI show environment fan
NXAPI show environment temperature
Interface Stats DME path sys/intf query-condition query-target=subtree&target-subtree-class=rmonIfIn,rmonIfOut,rmonIfHCIn,rmonIfHCOut,rmonEtherStats
Interface State DME path sys/intf depth unbounded query-condition query-target=subtree&target-subtree-class=l1PhysIf,pcAggrIf,l3EncRtdIf,l3LbRtdIf,ethpmPhysIf
VPC DME path sys/vpc query-condition query-target=subtree&target-subtree-class=vpcDom,vpcIf
Resources cpu DME path sys/procsys query-condition query-target=subtree&target-subtree-class=procSystem,procSysCore,procSysCpuSummary,procSysCpu,procIdle,procIrq,procKernel,procNice,procSoftirq,procTotal,procUser,procWait,procSysCpuHistory,procSysLoad
Resources Mem DME path sys/procsys/sysmem/sysmemused
path sys/procsys/sysmem/sysmemusage
path sys/procsys/sysmem/sysmemfree
Per Process cpu DME path sys/proc depth unbounded query-condition rsp-foreign-subtree=ephemeral
vxlan(svi stats) DME path sys/bd query-condition query-target=subtree&target-subtree-class=l2VlanStats
BGP DME path sys/bgp query-condition query-target=subtree&target-subtree-class=bgpDom,bgpPeer,bgpPeerAf,bgpDomAf,bgpPeerAfEntry,bgpOperRtctrlL3,bgpOperRttP,bgpOperRttEntry,bgpOperAfCtrl
mac dynamic DME path sys/mac query-condition query-target=subtree&target-subtree-class=l2MacAddressTable
bfd DME path sys/bfd/inst depth unbounded
lldp DME path sys/lldp depth unbounded
urib DME path sys/urib depth unbounded query-condition rsp-foreign-subtree=ephemeral
u6rib DME path sys/u6rib depth unbounded query-condition rsp-foreign-subtree=ephemeral
multicast flow DME path sys/mca/show/flows depth unbounded
multicast stats DME path sys/mca/show/stats depth unbounded
multicast igmp NXAPI show ip igmp groups vrf all
multicast igmp NXAPI show ip igmp interface vrf all
multicast igmp NXAPI show ip igmp snooping
multicast igmp NXAPI show ip igmp snooping groups
multicast igmp NXAPI show ip igmp snooping groups detail
multicast igmp NXAPI show ip igmp snooping groups summary
multicast igmp NXAPI show ip igmp snooping mrouter
multicast igmp NXAPI show ip igmp snooping statistics
multicast pim NXAPI show ip pim interface vrf all
multicast pim NXAPI show ip pim neighbor vrf all
multicast pim NXAPI show ip pim route vrf all
multicast pim NXAPI show ip pim rp vrf all
multicast pim NXAPI show ip pim statistics vrf all
multicast pim NXAPI show ip pim vrf all