NPM Unknown Interface Management

analogfire

A feature I am looking for is to make managing interfaces on a node easier. Specifically when they are unknown due to an ifmib table id change. This can happen on a node just from a reboot or upgrade. I know NPM tries to match up these interfaces based on descriptions but in many cases we are left with a node having 100s of unknown interfaces that have to be manually deleted. These interfaces should be able to be removed from the 'list resources' screen. Also they should be able to be bulk selected and deleted. In the manage nodes view there needs to be a column to filter on all unknown interfaces and bulk delete if needed or selectively delete.

Suggestions

• Add management of 'unknown' interfaces to the 'List Resources' screen
• Add interface status column with filter abilities in 'Manage Nodes' page
• Add bulk selection/deletion of unknown interfaces to the 'Manage Nodes' page

Example

cahunt

I know it's not quite what we desire here but you can Add a column and sort from the Manage Nodes Page to show these unknown interfaces.

Add the Column, 'Node Overall Hardware Status(Node) - Status

Change Property selection from Nodes to Interfaces

Then Sort by the Added Column (descending) and status 17 will be your unknown interfaces so you can select them all to delete.

-CharlesH

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