I ran into an issue with that showing some bizarre stuff though on like PTP800 radios, etc. that use standard SNMP interface stats, but don't have an ifAlias on them. I did something so that it was automatically propagated on our Cisco switches and routers, but can't for the life of me remember for sure where I did the change.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Eric Kuhnke via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > Better to do it in the graph template which you're using for the interface > traffic chart on the device, rather than per-device, unless you want to do > a lot of manual hand editing. Edit the graph template and then save it, > all interfaces that use that template should then automatically update > htemselves. > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Steve Utick via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: > >> Yep. If you go into the graphs for the device, and change the "Title" >> section to say this: |host_description| - Traffic - |query_ifName| - >> |query_ifAlias| That will pull the data from the description on the port >> into the graph. >> >> As George said also, you can change the data query templates to put that >> in by default as well. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Tyler Treat via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> In Cacti, is there a way to make the Cisco interface descriptions show >>> up on the corresponding graph? >>> >>> All I currently get is the Interface name, which gets confusing at times. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Tyler >>> >> >> >
