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Kamil_Koscielni's avatar
Kamil_Koscielni
10 years ago

Automatically disable monitoring on administratively disabled ports.

Could we have a feature that allows LM to automatically disable monitoring on administratively disabled ports?

I have noticed that LM sends warnings alerts about problem with optics on brocade switch when the interfaces are administratively disabled. We would like to have LM to discover when port is in shut down state and not sending the alerts until the port is activated. We provision most of our network configuration through automated scripts and that feature would help us reduce number of false alerts and need for manual LM configuration. I think many companies would appreciate and take advantage of this feature.

Thanks,

Kamil Koscielniak

Artisan Infrastructure

  • Annie_Dunham's avatar
    Annie_Dunham
    Former Employee
    10 years ago

    Hi Kamil,

    We'll take a look at this and evaluate the request. In the meantime, would it work to use our API to schedule down time as part of your automated scripts?

    -Annie

  • Steve_Francis's avatar
    Steve_Francis
    Former Employee
    10 years ago

    If you always admin down ports that are not supposed to be in use - this is easily done with a change to the datasource discovery.

    The reason we don't set this up by default is we only discover interfaces that are operationally 'up', as most people leave all interfaces admin up, so whether operationally up or not is the thing that matters for discovery.

    We don't undiscover interfaces that are operationally down, as that is when you want to alert on them.

    If, in your case, all admin up interfaces should be discovered, and alerted on whether operationally up or not, it's easy to set the filters that way. (Although it would result in alerts for admin up interfaces that have never been operationally up.)

    Is this regarding Optical interfaces, or the regular datasource?

  • Michael's avatar
    Michael
    10 years ago

    How would we remove/undiscover the interfaces that are meant to be down?

    We recently decomissioned a bunch of servers and have 50+ alerts on a particular switch where the interaces have been taken offline (admin downed)

  • Steve_Francis's avatar
    Steve_Francis
    Former Employee
    10 years ago

    In this specific case - the easiest way is to go the Settings..Datasources page, and load the snmp64_If- datasource.

    Clear the 'persistent' checkbox, then go the the device in question and run Active Discovery. That will remove all the down interfaces.

    Then re-enable the 'persistent' checkbox in the datasource.