I've been challenged to use NPM or NCM (or any SW module) to do the following (and I don't see the way to do it yet):
Given: NPM monitors all switch ports, and NCM backs up all Switches nightly
Tasks: Use Solarwinds to
- Display the total count of ports with ISE configured in "enforcement" mode.
- Each switchport configuration requires perhaps a dozen or twenty lines to properly enable ISE in our environment.
- The port count must display the total number of ports with ISE enabled or disabled across a thousand switches (e.g.: 47,000 ports with ISE enabled, 1,000 ports with it disabled).
- The report could go a step deeper and list ISE ports and non-ISE ports broken down by switch.
- Display the total count of ports with ISE configured in "monitor" mode.
- The port count must display the total number of ports with ISE in monitor or NOT in monitor mode
- It would be a valuable option to be able to drill in deeper and break this list down by switch, and display the ports in monitor mode or not in monitor mode
- The port count must display the total number of ports with ISE in monitor or NOT in monitor mode
- Display the total count of ports with ISE configured in "open authentication" mode
- Optionally, break the list down by switch and switchport, displaying only the ports in "open auth" mode
- Display the count of ports participating in trunks
- It should list separately the count of ports in port-channels that are uplinks to Distribution or Core switches
- Downlink ports, or ports to PC's requiring multiple VLAN's, must be counted separately from the uplink ports. We'll make it easy and specify port-channel 1 will always be an uplink, and higher numbered port-channels will always be downlinks
- The count could additionally/optionally be displayed on a per-switch basis
- It should list separately the count of ports in port-channels that are uplinks to Distribution or Core switches
- List the total number of all switchports
Is this too specific / challenging for Solarwinds products to do? It seems like the Compliance Reporting is ideal for it, but I'm not having good luck so far.
Swift packets!
Rick Schroeder