RE: Links Down vs. Warnings

[Mike Lieberman]

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This has definitely come up before… I also have the problem that link reporting, as it is now, is not completely adequate.   For those who are ready in their next email to suggest that setting levels for discards and errors ‘fixes’ the problem with using alarms, I suggest you think again.   Even if you set thresholds high enough to keep the alarms for down links only – not something that I am in favor of – you still won’t know if a link comes UP unless you choose to get pages on the “OK”s and that a real bummer! You’ll get OK’s after warnings and alarms and UP’s. You end up flooded with notifications.   So Bill, Rich, Tex, Chris … how about it? Why not parse the error messages and note a “link Down” for special treatment. That would include special paging and notification rules and looking for a OK for that device when the link down is received and then special notification and paging when the OK is received. That way we can set threshold where we really need them as well. ALSO we would need a rule for which devices get this treatment and which do not. LAN switches and modem banks need their link DOWN statuses ignored most often.     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Phillips, Dave (CM - AZ) Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:15 AM To: 'InterMapper Discussion' Subject: RE: Links Down vs. Warnings   Yes,  that would be great!   Regards, David Phillips, CCIE #1338 Sr. Network Engineer Avnet,  Chandler, AZ  [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Adam W. Kincheloe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Links Down vs. Warnings Greetings,   As our network evolves, we find that it is more crucial that we know if a link or vlan interface is down more than if the box is down. I know I can set up paging to page us when there is a warning, which will also inlcude a link going down, but we would rather not get notified of snmp errors or error discards. Is it possible, and would anyone else benefit, from having another category in the Notification list for Link Failure, just as we have: Up, Down, Alarm, etc.     Thanks! - Adam   -------------------------------------------------- Adam W. Kincheloe Missouri, USA Cell Phone: 417.594.0902 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.student.smsu.edu/a/awk718s --------------------------------------------------