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Cisco Switch Unused Ports
FormerMember
Can Orion identify unused ports on a Cisco switch? This would be similar to the User Tracking/Report Generator/Switch Port Usage/Unused Up report in LMS. This report identifies ports that have not been used since the last statistics clearing.
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FormerMember
This is definitely what I have been looking for. I currently use another product for this and it would be very useful to incorporate this into Orion since it is monitoring the switches anyway.
Can this be added to a future version of Orion???
sodonnel
Knowing which switchports are not in used at present it fine, but I'd like to take it a step further. It would be extremely beneficial to know which switch ports, enterprise-wide, have not been used in x number of weeks and then generate a report with that information.
jonchill
You can get this report out of Cirrus so I don't know whether it is possible to get it out of Orion and whether Solarwinds will make the functionality avavialble as it's in a different product, they are meant to be looking at combining some of Cirrus's functionality into Orion as they've already done in v3.5.
HTH
Jon
IT Infrastructure Manager
Pilgrim Hospital
UK
FormerMember
Jon,
Thanks for the response. How do you get this info from Cirrus? What information from the switch is it using to get this?
Seraphym
rwsim,
we made a little quick-and-dirty solution for this problem.
the keyword being "custom property".
- create a custom property for the switchports you want to monitor. we name it "downtime"
- create an alert for the switchports you want to monitor
every time the switchport goes up, the alert writes the current date into the custom property field.
- after a little while you can clearly see which ports are not used anymore, identifiable by the time stamp.
- set up/write a report
- be happy
works pretty good here with approx. 1200 interfaces monitored.
regards,
josch
mihi est propositum in taberna mori
jonchill
Arinet
It's an interface details table that is dynamically updated and I can only think that there are some maths going on in the background of the report as in the standard reports you can only get a last status change for each interface.
Just having Cirrus do this one function has saved us from installing 2 - 3 new switches and given us a way of making better use of our resources.
HTH
Jon
IT Infrastructure Manager
Pilgrim Hospital
UK
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