I just wanted to follow up and post what we had come up with for our solution. It turns out that under each interface component detail there is an "Alarm Configuration" section (Spectrum v9.2 H03). All we had to do was set "Generate Alarm on Port" to "NO" and that was it (The attribute name is slightly different: GeneratePortStatusAlarms). Polling now doesn't generate an alarm and neither does a trap when said interface goes up or down. Too simple. We are now blissfully ignorant when one of these ports flaps like crazy. We can still see the state transition in the event logs if we go look at it.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the thread. It was quite informative. -Ken On Jun 19, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Kenneth Kirchner wrote: > What is the best way to silence a port on a switch or router that you never > want to hear from again? Is it as simple as disabling polling? Will that > prevent traps on that interface from generating alarms as well? We have a > few ports with devices that we have no control over and no responsibility to > monitor, so we want to remove that noise from our monitoring. We are > currently stuffing these in maintenance mode, but that does not appear > optimal. > > -Ken > Spectrum 9.2 H03 > > > --- > To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: > unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
