I'm trying to do something similar. I'd like Cirrus to retrieve the IPs from as many as 6 interfaces of a Cisco router. Any way to do this?
Is there any simple way to moniter the status of multiple IP addresses for a single node short of defining a separate node for each IP address?For instance, for a VPN router at a remote site I'd like to be able to watch the status (reachability) of both the external ISP facing IP address and the internal VPN address.Paul
Unfortunately, this is not possible. Orion will monitor interfaces, not individual interface IPs, unless you define ICMP-only nodes for each in the database. There is, however, a good reason to set it up this way, as you can create Alert dependencies based upon the availability of each IP.
Also, often the status of the interface should suffice, if the interface is something like a T1 or Serial interface which depends on an upper layer protocol like PPP or HDLC to operate. If PPP is not established, the interface should go down. This does not work well on Ethernet or Frame-Relay, as it's certainly possible to have these types of multipoint interfaces "up" and not be able to reach the other side.
Hope this helps.
