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You should be doing a bulkwalk on ifTable/ifXTable or parts of it for performance anyway so why is this a problem? If your performance management software is blindly getting just a specific counter each and every time it's doing it wrong. There are other ways of getting counters if you do not like snmp. -- Kaj Sent from my Nokia N900 ----- Original message ----- > I have to agree here - having the monitoring software "rediscover" where > the > ifindex for an interface is after a reboot isn't ideal in my > opinion..... > > Paul > > > -----Original Message----- > From: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of martin > Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 5:18 AM > To: Chris Adams; > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Interface Index(ifIndex) changes when router is > rebooted > > ok, but what do you mean by fix the software? You don't poll > interfaces by ifindex number? > > 2010/8/14 Chris Adams <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: > > Once upon a time, martin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > > said: > > > As ifindex value has to be persistent in order to use > > > it for SNMP based monitoring solutions(for example Nagios), > > > > Basically, fix the software. It isn't that hard to do; Cricket (among > > others) has managed to handle it for 10+ years. There will always be > > cases where instance numbers change, so you might as well go ahead and > > deal with it. > > > > For Nagios, I use a plugin wrapper that can walk a specified tree, > cache > > the tree, match the desired value, and then call another plugin with > the > > instance number. > > -- > > Chris Adams <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > > _______________________________________________ > > juniper-nsp mailing list > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
