I have a scenario to alert me whenever the MAC addresses (of servers) are disconnected from my network routers and switches. What would be the best approach to do this. Thank you.
I think the problem you will run into here is that SW alerts require you to tie an alert to a currently monitored object. If you were monitoring those servers themselves you would be alerted on the server. I dont remember there being any table in the DB that would keep historical MAC info except in the UDT module. Assuming you have that then a custom SQL alert could be cooked up when a MAC is gone for a certain period of time, but I'm not sure what the object of the alert would be. Might tie it back to the switch but there are some limitations with that angle. Don't remember if UDT MAC's are treated as the kind of persistent object that can have alerts on it.
Hello.. thanks for the response. To answer your query, we do not monitor those servers with Solarwinds. We only care about the interface description configured on the switch interfaces. Once the servers are decommissioned, we would like to get an email of what server it was connected to. With this information, we will be able to make sure if the server was really decommissioned or if that was a periodic issue with the server. Once the server is made sure to be decommissioned, we are planning to to automate the interface config removal from the switch. We have UDT in our environment. I tried querying a couple of tables, but getting scalar value need to be declared errors. Any pointers would be helpful
Currently, Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) cannot be directly used as a source in UDT, as it primarily supports traditional AD Domain Controllers for synchronization. However, you can integrate Entra ID indirectly through Azure AD Connect or API-based synchronization to fetch user attributes and group data. This setup allows you to bridge cloud identities with your on-premises environment, similar to how tools like Instaviewer pull external data sources seamlessly into one unified view.
