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Spanning tree, as we know, is an extremely useful function of a network. However, equally so, in the hands of an inexperience engineer, or with someone adding network devices or 802.1q capable network cards to the network in an uncontrolled manner, it can be the worst thing ever. It would be useful to have a map view of…
Recently I've had a several people ask me for advice on getting started with managing their networks and so I thought I'd take a few minutes tonight to shed some light on the subject... Now, this might seem like an odd topic as many of us have been neck deep in network management since we were knee-high to a grasshopper,…
Hi, Anyone with experience in SQL queries and combining custom MIB pollers to create a combined GUI view or report? A solution for following issue would bring benefits to lots of people I think... We want to add a Node detail listing the Spanning Tree Port Status of all important Interfaces of a Switch. In NPM this only…
We just upgraded our Brocade Switches (FGS648) to 07.2.02d code and (FES4802) to 04.1.01e code. We are running Spanning Tree on the Switches and we have one port in a BLOCKING State on each of the switches. Orion is showing this port in a UP Admin Status but DOWN Operational Status. Prior to the Upgrade of the Switch…
I have cisco switches as my layer 3 core and 3com as my layer 2 server access. Each 3com is attached to two different distribution switches and spanning tree is supposed to sort it out. I have however noticed that the 3com's run rapid spanning tree by default and the cisco's are running PVST. Orion is reporting the ports…
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