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eh-xiber
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25 days ago

Dashboard based on Port Description

Hi Community,

My aim is to be able to filter specific ports based on the port Description and show it on a dashboard.

We use specific ports with specific description for certain type of traffic. We want to be able to see this traffic.

These ports are across several devices so a filtering based on one of these : auto.interface.description ; auto.interface.alias ; auto.interface.name ; i think would help but I am not able to find a workaround.

An example would be to show ports that their description start with 'Transport'

I also tried dynamic grouping based on above instances but its not working.

Thank you!

Endrit Hasaj

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  • Ian_Marge's avatar
    Ian_Marge
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    7 days ago

    Hi Endrit, 

    Thank you for your question. 

    Are you familiar with the new LogicMonitor Dashboard Property Filters? You can read more about that here: https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/modern-dashboards

    For your question above, please follow these steps:

    1. Make sure that you have specified the Resource Property on the dashboard that you are currently using.
      • Example:
        • Property: system.categories
        • Value: interfaces  
    2. Then you can specify the Instance Property.
      • Example:
        • Property: auto.interface.description
        • Value: Transport* - The asterisk (*) acts as a wildcard to match any interface whose description starts with 'Transport'

    Please let use know if that answers your question. 

    Best,
    Ian

  • eh-xiber's avatar
    eh-xiber
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    7 days ago

    Hello Ian,

    Thank you for your reply.

    That is what I did in fact and it works to some extent. 


    Lets say I want to have on a single dashboard different graphs based on different port descriptions.

    For instance : 

    1st graph has to be filtered based on port description: Transport

    2nd graph has to be filtered on port description: Peering

    Is there a way to build such dashboard without having to switch between saved views?

    Once again thank you for taking your time and replying to my thread.

    Regards,

    Endrit Hasaj

    • dmb269's avatar
      dmb269
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      5 days ago

      Endrit,

      I had a issue similar to yours, while filtering by resource property is the easiest way to do things if you want different resource properties on a single dashboard would be to have separate interface datasources that filter out interface descriptions by using the "auto.interface.alias" property and then specifying your port description by using regex or whatever works for you.

      Only issue is that would mean there are 2 or more datasources using SNMP to hit your device to gather interface metrics, which if the total number of interfaces is large enough could slow things down.