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I'd like NPM to automatically discover / monitor all members of Cisco port-channels by placing them in a special group.

I built a special group in NPM for monitoring and alerting that contains Critical Interfaces.  My definition of a Critical Interface includes:

  • All physical interfaces that are members of port-channels between switches and/or routers
  • All firewall physical interfaces
  • All resilient interfaces (must have an alternate path that still works when a primary interface fails)
  • All WAN physical interfaces

It took a long time to tweak & tune it, but it worked well, alerting me when port resilience was lost in channel-groups.

After several mergers and migrating my Orion solution to new servers I see those solutions did not migrate with the boxes.

I'd like an option in NPM to automatically discover the above types of interfaces and add them into the Critical Interfaces group.  Without that automated way I've got to search through 70,000 physical ports and manually select the resilient uplinks on hundreds of switches and routers and firewalls.  It's possible, but this is the kind of a work a computer should be able to do quickly.

Is there a way to do this already?

Unfortunately the interfaces do not all have the same label or name.  The most common item is that they'd show up as members of Cisco channel-groups / port-channels.

  • Do you use NCM ?

    If yes and you run NCM Discovery

    You can find all the port channels from the interface report under NCM

  • I like the way you're thinking, sja​.  However, when I look at Interface Type reports I only see about fifty 802.3ad interfaces recognized, and I have several hundred--perhaps over a thousand. 

    But yours is the first suggestion leading me down that path.

    I'll play around with it for a while to see if I can discover the logic that will display the port-channel members, their nodes, and that can notify me when one or more of those interfaces changes state.

  • Hi

    Don't have  problem with the FR ...But  sure like SW will let you do that with some framework like  Advance  Alert..

    + or -

    "All" sound good for you not for me. (that CP in the LAB I dont need alert from that..)

    what about non cisco ieee8023  interfaces