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FEATURE REQUEST - Notification at monitored port status change

UDT already knows the status of a monitored port. Would it be possible for UDT to send notification at change of port status?

(Submitted as support case# 00101407.)

  • UDT already knows the status of a monitored port. Would it be possible for UDT to send notification at change of port status?

    Sorry, I'm re-reading your original message and trying to figure out how I was meant to get anything about MAC addresses on the monitored ports from that.  

    Anyway, it sounds like you're trying to make the handling of your port status alerts more intelligent. The information looks to be there in the API. I'm looking through SWQL Studio and the path is: Orion.UDT.Port > Orion.UDT.PortToEndPointCurrent > Orion.EndPoint. In that final table you have the fields FirstSeen, LastUpdate, and MACAddress.

    If you don't already have SWQL Studio you can download it from here and then after you've logged in with one of your web console credentials run the query below and see if the information looks interesting.

    SELECT TOP 1000 EndpointID, MACAddress, FirstSeen, LastUpdate, Rogue

    FROM Orion.UDT.Endpoint

  • We have various types of devices hanging off of 48 port cisco 2960 switches.  We already use NPM for monitoring the switches and interfaces. But we don't accurately know what is actually attached to them without logging into each switch. I would like to use UDT in order to see the mac addresses of the devices attached to those ports. We know when the port is down, but we do not know what type of device is connected to it. If we can trigger the alert to consider the devices beginning mac address when a port is down, then alerts could be sent to the appropriate support groups which manages those devices. For instance all AP alerts would go to support group A.  All camera alerts would go to support group B, etc.

    The leading characters of the MAC address would provide a way of setting up separate alerts by device type.

    Does that make sense?

    Thanks,

  • It looks like you should be able to create an alert on UDT port change out-of-the-box. What have you tried?

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