On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:21:09PM -0400, Jason Humes wrote:
> I'm trying to graph an Alcatel OmniSwitch and when I do a manual discovery,
> it finds all the interfaces, but like my CATos problem, it does not display
> anything useful under the description or name, just 10/100Ethernet
> CSMA/CD...  Is there anyway to get JFFNMS to use the IfIndex as the Descr,
> instead of this 10/100Ethernet CSMA/CD?  Thanks again.

It means the SNMP implemented on the Alcatel sucks.  The Alteons have
the same problem where the description is something useless like
"ethernet" - thankyou Alteon I'm glad its not the token-ring port...

It causes all sorts of problems in JFFNMS because the system tries to
match the description to the index so they all get squashed up together.
So it looks at interface1 and says "hey ethrnernet is index 1" moves
onto interface2 and says "hey ethernet is index 1" etc etc
so you get 8 or how many you have configured interfaces all with index 1
and nothing for index 2,3,4.....

The way around it is to find some other OID that does give something
useful, perhaps in the private.enterprises area.  If you are lucky
the indexes match (eg interface....1 is talking about the same physical
interface that private.enterprises....1 is) so you clone all the
physical interface interface type and change the OID in the various
pollers and discovery plugins.

 - Craig
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