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Luke_Parish1's avatar
Luke_Parish1
2 years ago

Alerting for switch port traffic drop using interface description

I’m trying to manufacture a health check for a security camera system that doesn’t offer any internal checks.  The cameras can fail but still respond to ping and other basic checks, so my thought is ...
  • Mike_Moniz's avatar
    Mike_Moniz
    2 years ago

    I would clone the existing Interface DataSource, have it only apply to those specific switches and setup ActiveDiscovery filters so only interfaces with the description you want are discovered.

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mnagel
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2 years ago

Instance groups are not actually groups and nothing in LM cares about them other than for narrow display purposes and kinda for bulk application of thresholds (for instances currently tagged with the instance group name). Hopefully that changes, but I’ve been battling that one for many years without success. You ought to be able to use the API to set per-instance thresholds based on the descriptions.