How to Monitor Spare MX box

[Adi1]

We are using primary and spare MX at all Meraki sites.

As Spare MX box doesn’t respond to pings, couldn’t monitor it from monitoring tools which is kind of limitation and until unless manually check Spare MX box status, will not be knowing if it’s up or down.

Can you help in sharing any OID or method which would help us in monitoring Spare MX box.

[RaphaelL]

That's the first time I hear that, but MX configured in a warm space DO respond to icmp. Just tested it on multiple MX450s

Also you could use SNMP to monitor the box , Webhooks and dashboard alerts

[Adi1]

it would be great if i get OID to try it out from LM

[Adi1]

we are using MX 250
As per standards, assigned Public Ip is not routable with in our network, with this reason monitoring with private Ips. [LAN side]

We are monitoring MX box’s with LAN side IP and could see same IP on both MX under “Addressing & VLANs”

believe because of VRRP, only active box responding.

[PhilipDAth]

You can monitor them via the Meraki Dashboard.  Organization/Overview can make a good heads up display, and it shows everything you have.

You just need to add a script to refresh the page regularly.