Monitor Interface Status by Description

[camprior]

Hey Guys

So I'm looking at monitoring several hundred switches but I don't want to add each one individually and untick non critical ports

Basically - Im looking for a way to add a switch and only have it monitor interfaces that contain -{CRITICAL}
Is there a way to do this? Or is it not possible

Cheers

Cam

[npolovenko]

Hello, @camprior. There's no out of the box way to do this. You could modify the source code for the switch/wizard component in XI to include some conditional statement to do that.
If the critical ports are the same on all switches:
You could run a wizard against one switch, and then use a bulk modification tool to just clone the config to other switches.
Or do the critical ports vary on every switch?

[camprior]

hey @npolovenko

The critical switchports will vary from switch to switch unfortunately

Thats cool - I guess i could have a look at the switch component and attempt to add a statement to say only add interfaces that contain -{CRITICAL}
That way you don't end up with a million edge ports reporting as down and generating a critical event

Thanks for the reply

[kyang]

I would like to add that any changes you make to XI, will be overwritten if you do an upgrade. It's important to always make a back up in case anything happens.

Did you have any more questions?