Monitoring ASA packet loss via SNMP

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Published on 2012-09-28T12:23:05Z Indexed on 2012/09/28 15:40 UTC
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I want to monitor packet loss on my ASA 5505 VPN endpoints using SNMP. This is so I can graph the rates in Cacti and/or get alerts in Nagios.

However, I am not sure what SNMP values I should use to measure packet loss.

In the ASA I can run sh interface Internet stats to show traffic statistics for the interface connected to the Internet. This shows 1 minute and 5 minute drop rates.

Are these measures an indicator of packet loss?
Are there SNMP values I can access that correspond to those values?
Should I be looking at different values?
Is the ASA even able to measure packet loss?

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