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Justin_Lanoue's avatar
Justin_Lanoue
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9 months ago

Network Interface - Duplicates/Nulls

Is there any solution for when network interfaces get assigned a brand new ID or become null and have a duplicate ID? Example: This seems to have every so often across our clients where Ge1/0/2...
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Mike_Moniz's avatar
Mike_Moniz
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9 months ago

I don't have an answer myself but it's been brought up a few times in this community, for example at https://community.logicmonitor.com/discussions/product-discussions/how-is-everyone-else-handling-network-interface-id-changes/14445

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
9 months ago

You should have `snmp ifindex persist` in your config to ensure that IDs don't get shuffled on reboot or when an interface is added.