Hello Community
Is it possible to get an alert when an Interface is up/down as opposed to down/down
For example:
Interface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol
FastEthernet0/0 10.5.0.12 YES NVRAM up down
Thanks
Carlton
I have set the trigger as you have. But you're not going to get an alert unless you have a trigger and/or reset action.
Trigger Condition:
Trigger Actions:
Down/down being when the interface is physically down as opposed to administratively down?
To get alert when interface down, ensure device and interface in question being monitored and then create an alert with the following trigger condition:
Trigger Alert when all of the following apply
interface status is equal to Down
To avoid interface notifications when the node is down, define an additional condition group:
Trigger Alert when none of the following apply
Node status is equal to Down
Hi Martin,
Thanks for responding.
I actually mean when the interface is down but the protocol is up.
I understand when an interface is down/down or when the interface is admin down. However, as I mentioned there numerous situations where the interface is down/up i.e.
nterface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol
At present, I don't know how to compile a trigger for the above, i.e. up/down
Regards
How about:
Trigger Alert when all of the following apply:
Interface Status is equal to Down
Trigger Alert when none of the following apply:
Administrative Status is equal to Shutdown
Therefore, if an interface is down, only notify if the interface is administratively up.
Going to try that now...
Hi Martin
It didnt work :-(
Hmm, I'm not sure what you want to do is possible either that or I don't fully understand what you want to achieve. The logic I would apply to interface alerts is as follows:
If I'm monitoring an interface in NPM, I want to know when it's down (and back up) or when it's administratively shutdown (and enabled)
Martin,
I think you're just monitoring if an interface goes down down or administrative down.
However, I'm sure you've had situations where an interface line is down but the protocol is up????
Orion isn't monitoring the protocol status of an interface when it's determining the interface status. It's only monitoring the operational status, and the administrative status. As such, these are the only two items you can inherently alert on for an interface. What you'd have to do is see if there's a MIB that would report on the protocol status for the interface, create it as a poller using the Universal Device Poller, then once created and assigned, create the alert off that poller.
Regards,
Matthew Harvey
Loop1 Systems
You have hit on exactly what I need, but it seems to much work to achieve through the poller
carlton.patterson@matthey.com,
If you are looking at Cisco gear, this poller I've setup may help. You can find it here https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-175252. Once assigned, you should be able to create an alert based off the poller name and the status.
Senior Sales Engineer
http://www.loop1systems.com
Hi mharvey,
We do use Cisco gear. Can you let me know where to import the script you suggested, below?
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Manage Nodes, 'Manage Pollers' link (top-right) - you can also get there from 'Settings' under the NPM section 'Manage Pollers'.
Click Import
You need to add another trigger condition for the status to trigger on. in this case, it would be 0 or down. Otherwise the alert will trigger simply based on the fact that the poller exists.
Do you mean like this?
This is more what you'd want:
Hi Harvey,
I tried your suggestion and I ddn't get a single alert: :-(
