Anyway to have warning when interface comes up, and ok when down?

Hi,

As in the tittle, is there a way that I can have an interface be in warning status when it is up, but ok status when it's down?

Here's my scenario. Our branch links have ADSL as their main line, but also have a backup ISDN line. So in normal conditions the ADSL is up and the ISDN is down. Would like the node to show a warning when either ADSL goes down (which will bring ISDN up anyway), or ISDN comes up.

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wayneg

I found a couple of other requests for this from back in 2005, is it still not possible?

adatole

You can certainly get an alert (described below) but to have it show up as a red "up" event and a green "down" event is probably not possible.

To set up the alert, you need to set up a custom interface property, binary type field, called "backup" (or whatever). Then you create an alert where the trigger is:

field "backup" is true

field interface status is up

The reset for this would be

field backup is true

field interface status is down

wayneg

Thanks for your reply. I've done the alert part. I was just hoping to be able to indicate a warning on the web console if ISDN was up.

It looks like I may be able to get an ok solution by using the "mark interface as unplugged rather than down" feature.

adatole

And you will get the information on the web console in the sense that your alert will appear there. Just not a red-coded "up" (you *will* get a green-coded "up", however).

darryld

You can do it in a map by creating your own graphic (mygraphic.jpg) and adding the _up (mygraphic_up.jpg) to the red image and _down to the green image

adatole

OK, that's kind of sneaky. I like.