Does anyone know how to create an alert notification for when an interface goes up or down? I'm only interested in getting a notification from the interfaces I'm monitoring. for example I have a switch with 200 ports, but I only want to get alerted on up down status of the two uplinks it has and not on all the user ports. I have about a hundred of these switches/routers.
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The way I would do this is create a Custom Property under Interfaces with the Custom Property Editor on the SolarWinds Server.. Call it Uplink and use the True/False values to populate your uplinks. Then… -
An Interface down trap from the device to Orion could be matched with a Trap Viewer alert using the "Change the Status of an Interface" action. The Interface would need to be monitored in Orion from what… -
Sounds like a good idea. So I guess what I'm going to do is make sure I have a unique description on the interfaces I'm concerned about and create my alert using the method donc1972 mentioned (although…
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Sounds like a good idea.
So I guess what I'm going to do is make sure I have a unique description on the interfaces I'm concerned about and create my alert using the method donc1972 mentioned (although Richard's way is good also, having descriptions on interfaces is our standard practice) and set the Trap alert to change my interface status immediately. Oh, and I need to make sure my devices send the link-status trap.
I've yet to find some time to troubleshoot the snmp packet loss issue...
Thanks everyone for your help!
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