> How are folks monitoring their backup osa's on the vswitch? How do you > know they haven't lost connectivity and won't be there when you need it? > (asking because, well, yeah, that can happen :)
You can also use any SNMP-capable monitor and look at the SNMP physical link state variable in the OSA hardware MIB and the switch MIB for that interface. If that drops, then the interface isn't usable.
