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Re: Avoiding duplicate instances
Thanks @mnagelSo for now it sounds like I can't do anything smart with renaming or merging. So that leaves me with the question about the alerting that its happened. I was thinking a complex datasource with a small script but my groovy is more at butcher level rather than starting something from scratch. :)/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" title=":)" width="20">4Views0likes0CommentsAvoiding duplicate instances
Hi Throwing something out there for advice. There are a number of datasources that are subject to duplication of instance because you cannot safely turn on the automatically delete as legitimate instances may go down for longer than 30 days. This appears to be due to them being very dependent on the instancename, so if this is something the customer has the ability to change then it creates another instance during Active Discovery. My question is if anyone has an ideas on a complex datapoint (or some other means) that can detect that this instance has matching property to another instance. This could be say auto.device.mac_address or even the Instance Value as these always match between the duplicate instances. This is really bugging me now so I really need to find a proactive way to address them. The real downside is that you lose the historical data when it is actually the same device. What the ideal would be is if you could merge instance or at least delete the new and rename the old one to the new ones name so its not discovered again.65Views0likes4CommentsRe: Cisco Port Channel Monitoring
37 minutes ago, Stuart Weenig said: Ok, so the way to do this in the product today is cluster alerts, unless you find a mib that is indexed by port channel and gives stats about the members (number that are up/down vs. total). With cluster alerts, you'd need a simpler way of managing it so configuring them isnot so much of a tedious job. I'm going to bite my tongue before i say API. Yep, Product wise, I get that is a feature that can help. The question was more to the Cisco peeps out there to see if they have found a MIB that can help as I am struggling to find a good one, and one that is more consistent across the product lines.6Views0likes0CommentsRe: Cisco Port Channel Monitoring
Hi Stuart In this instance, the switch has about 20 port-channels with about 30-40 interfaces, so I would need a way to map what interfaces form the port channel before I can think about the alerting. But yes, in essence, that is what I am after. With the alert being Port Channel specific. David8Views0likes0CommentsCisco Port Channel Monitoring
Hi all I am hoping that someone has come against this requirement. While I can monitor port channels, I would like to monitor the port channel interfaces but not as interfaces, as the channel group that they are. So ideally that if one of the interfaces in the port channel is down that we can alert on its degraded state. As an interface, the port channel remains up and happy so doesn't cater for individual failures. I have been hunting for a suitable MIB for this but getting varied results between Cisco devices. Any help on this topic is appreciated. David141Views0likes9Comments