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what's the deal with INTERFACE TYPE and Gigabit?

i did a report on Gigabit Interfaces and it seems wrong. i have more in Orion System Manager than what gets reported.

Report Writer, plus a Resource View named "Number of Interfaces by Type", shows only a few 'Gigabit' interfaces.

why are gigabit ports showing up as INTERFACE TYPE 6 'ethernetCsmacd' (Gigabit ports at speeds of 1.0 GB) and (a few) as INTERFACE TYPE 117 'gigabitEthernet'?

  • i think i found it, but its kinda misleading the way it is named by Interface Type and this may be because of some RFC.  i guess i'll live with it unless someone at Solarwinds speaks out about this. it involves switch modules with port names GigabitEthernet and/or Port.

    Solarwinds calls a GigabitEthernet switch-port as ethernetCsmacd and a Port switch-port as gigabitEthernet.

    Here's a basic report to catch this and i'm using a NODE Custom Property named Device.Type.

     

    SELECT
    Interfaces.Caption AS Interface_Caption, Interfaces.FullName AS Full_Name, Interfaces.InterfaceTypeName AS Interface_Type_Name, Interfaces.InterfaceSpeed AS Interface_Speed, Interfaces.InterfaceTypeDescription AS Interface_Type_Description
     FROM
    Nodes INNER JOIN Interfaces ON (Nodes.NodeID = Interfaces.NodeID)
     WHERE 
    (
      (Nodes.Device_Type = 'switch') AND
      (
       (Interfaces.InterfaceTypeName LIKE '%gigabitethernet%') OR
       (Interfaces.Caption LIKE '%gigabitethernet%'))
    )

     ORDER BY 1 ASC