Hi Chris! I'm not sure I got your question, but that's the way it is:
Opsview (if configured) is able to watch any interface on routers/switches. You just have to configure SNMP monitoring for the Host an check the interfaces. Opsview now monitors this interfaces (and collects statistics) an originally reported a critical error for every interface that was physically down (regardless of the admin state). This wasn't ideal as you had to change the host configuration every time you changed the interfaces (e.g. attached/detached a device). My (accepted) proposal was to change the logic in the following way: Don't raise alarms on interfaces whose admin state is down. So you would be able to check all interfaces in the host configuration. Every interface that has an "down" admin state and is "down" physically is "OK" in Opsview. If the admin state is up and physical state is up, it's "OK" in Opsview. Any other case (admin state doesn't match physical state) is regarded as an error and would be risen in Opsview as a critical error. So you still get informed if an interface goes down, or an previously down interface goes up. The burden of configuring moves from the Opsview administrator to the network guys, because the admin state has to be set per port on the switch/router. As it is good (ans secure) style to shut interfaces down (admin down) if no cable is attached (physically down), is very good to monitor the interfaces this way. I hope to have clarified the situation, feel free to ask further questions. -- kind regards, Henry PS: You should consider posting questions to the mailing list, as the answer would be shared with the community (and may be corrected, improved, ...). This mail goes to the mailing-list and your address. On Fr, 2010-03-19 at 11:50 -0400, Chris Dolese wrote: > Helmut , > > > > Glad someone else saw this before me J > > > > One question though – where does one set the admin status and is this > down port by port ? within opsview ? or on the device ? > > > > > > > > Thanks ! > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users
