How can I get a simple interface availability report?

Hello,

Let me preface this by saying I'm relatively new to sw and basically know nothing. However sometimes new eyes can help, in reportwriter I find I can write a report on static objects such as interfaces, group them by node for datasource 1, select availability as the metric and % as the outcome over the last 7 days. I then select time period (in my case I chose every 15 minutes) then show all records and submit. This brings me to a chart (if you're looking for columns this might not be what you're looking for but there are other platforms available in reportwriter) which has my selected interfaces, the availability in % with a timestamp every 3 hours (which i'm sure you can probably narrow down). This was a relatively simple creation so it may not be at all what you're looking for. Hope it helps a bit. You're also definitely not the only company looking for interface reports.

Hello,

Let me preface this by saying I'm relatively new to sw and basically know nothing. However sometimes new eyes can help, in reportwriter I find I can write a report on static objects such as interfaces, group them by node for datasource 1, select availability as the metric and % as the outcome over the last 7 days. I then select time period (in my case I chose every 15 minutes) then show all records and submit. This brings me to a chart (if you're looking for columns this might not be what you're looking for but there are other platforms available in reportwriter) which has my selected interfaces, the availability in % with a timestamp every 3 hours (which i'm sure you can probably narrow down). This was a relatively simple creation so it may not be at all what you're looking for. Hope it helps a bit. You're also definitely not the only company looking for interface reports.

I'll give this a try and see what type of data out put I get. But we may need more. Thank you though for your response.

Cool, let me know if it helps you out. Also depending on your SLA, availability over 7 days might not be the best metric to use to warrant maintenance as typically you'd be measuring the actual path availability the circuit is currently routing over (with MPLS) which may be inaccurate over 7 days? You might consider using a 30 day trend and unless you're trying to find out at what specific times of day a circuit is degraded or out, you might be able to get away with something even more simple depending on what kind of maintenance youre performing. For instance, if you go into reportwriter and use the report: interface downtime summarized - 7 days, it will tell you simply all the interfaces on your nodes and the total time in duration of minutes that each has been either up down or unavailable, which might even be more detailed than what youre currently trying to do.

It ends up looking something like this:

In this case Tunnel 1 was unreachable for 3 minutes, down for 3, and up for 170 - obviously over 30 days and across your enclave you might see all kinds of interfaces that are just completely out of whack or many that just say theyve been up for however many thousands of minutes.