We use HP Datacenter automation center, formerly opsware. It is great for
provisioning equipment, standardizing your IOS, policy compliance, and
auditing. I highly recommend this tool
https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=btocp=1-11-271-273_4000_100__
to detect a failure when the link is still up, you can use ip sla to ping the
downstream router. You can then use embedded event manager to track your sla
and trigger an event upon failure. The event could be to email you, send an
snmp trap, or run a tcl script such as changing static routes.
We currently have 2 6513's in our core, and we have seen packet loss on our
network. I was trying to locate the source of the packet loss. We did see some
input queue drops on the SVI's and physical interfaces. I had increased our
queue size on the vlan interfaces to 500, and our packet drops
We currently have 2 6513's in our core, and we have seen packet loss on our
network. I was trying to locate the source of the packet loss. We did see some
input queue drops on the SVI's and physical interfaces. I had increased our
queue size on the vlan interfaces to 500, and our packet drops
