Has anyone else tried to do this? With the vast numbers of network devices interfaces that we have unused at a given time, we can't afford to monitor them because of element counts and unnecessary polling activity. But our Network team will periodically begin using one of these interfaces for a critical function which will require us to monitor it.
We use NCM and UDT. I notice that NCM tracks an inventory of all interfaces whether they are monitored or not.
In this example, I want to be alerted when this unmonitored interface's alias changes to something like "Uplink":
NCM lists all this interfaces and a comparison of NCM reports can show the alias change.
Any thoughts on how I may be able to trigger an alert to catch alias changes on our unmonitored interfaces? Is there perhaps a better approach entirely?
