Collecting stats without receiving alerts?

Question

All,

Is there a way to monitor a switch port so that it just collects stats, but doesn't alert on up/down status?

In our computer room we have *a lot* of servers connected to 4506 chassis, we've setup Orion to monitor these ports, but we only care about the stats since the servers can be rebooted at any time, and we'd rather not know about that.

So does anyone know of some sort of trick in Orion that'll let us do that?

Thanks!

-Steve

willhepptemp · Answer

I set up custom properties in the interface table so that interfaces could be referred to by function (uplink and WAN, in this example) and then set up advanced alerts to send notification only for those links I care about. This lets you bypass looking at the "Events" section for up/down, ultilization or whatever and you can control what pops up.

Hope that helps,

Will

skaczkowski · Answer

Ahhh!

Thanks for that John, I'll give it a shot!

Well, we just like to get an idea on what's going on, things like error counts and what not, just to see if something looks 'different' from day to day that might help to indicate a problem..

Thanks again!

-Steve

jtimes · Answer

Steve - you can add a custom property to the nodes or interfaces you don't want to see this from and then build a filter with that custom property under the "Nodes with Problems" like this: customproperty<>"value/word" Sample: Interface Custom Property is ServerPort and servers = Yes Interfaces.ServerPort<>"Yes" Be sure to add that filter to all views that list node or interface resources. Remember that you will not see them after that. This is very risky because you run the risk of not seeing an issue. Let me ask you something here: So when you have gaps in the stats you assume that the server was rebooted??? What good are those statistics then? John J. Times