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Router or switch ?

contracer

Hi,

I´m looking for any way to detect if a Cisco device is a router or a switch.

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Jason.Henson

contracer,

If your devices are discovered with SNMP, you can group them by device type.

Thanks,
Jason Henson
Loop1 Systems
www.Loop1Systems.com

contracer

I need create an alert to trigger when any router goes down.

Jason.Henson

contracer,

If you need to build an alert on the routers, you really have two options that I can think of:

1) You can build a custom property and group all of the Routers, Switches and Servers together. Once you've defined that value, you can define the alert to fire off for the following conditions:

Node status is equal to Down
'CustomProperty' is equal to 'Router'

2) You can build the alert to fire for the following condition:
    Node status is equal to Down
and then build a condition group for:
    Device Type is equal to 'X'
    Device Type is equal to 'y'
    Device Type is equal to 'z'

'x', 'y' and 'z' represent the models of the routers in your network you wish to execute the alert for. If you standardize this, then this should be easy to set up. Make sure that the secondary condition group is defined with a logic of 'any' so that any one of those models (router models) would trigger the alert and that the device doesn't have to match all model types.

Note that for this to work, you need to be using the Advanced Alert Manager from the Programs menu on the server.

Thanks,
Jason Henson
Loop1 Systems
www.Loop1Systems.com

familyofcrowes

This is pretty much how we did this. We created a custom propery called "core" and anytime a core devices goes down we know its a big deal.

Problem is routers can be actual routers AND layer 3 switches depending on the application of the hardware. Thats why we found that the custom properties work the best, then use manage devices to sort them and set the property in bulk....

good luck!