I finally got around to trying this. It does not seem to have any effect.
Alarms continue to generate for these switch ports with polling=no and
poll_port_status=no. Actually, I checked a few of the other ports on the switch
and the poll port status attribute looks like it is no by default. What is the
purpose of the polling toggle? It certainly does not seem intuitive. I could
understand if polling was set to no, but a trap still caused an alarm (maybe
"Disable trap-based events" would stop that! Naaaaaaah! Thats crazy talk!).
That does not appear to be the case here. Spectrum is polling the device,
seeing the port down, ignoring the poll status, and generating an alarm ("BAD
LINK DETECTED"). I can't find anything in my 59 Spectrum documents that says
what the "Generate Alarm on Port" and "Generate Alarm on Device" do.
I have hyper-extended my middle finger in the direction of my Spectrum server.
-Ken
On Jun 19, 2011, at 11:03 PM, Rajasekhar_Allala wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> Set polling status as well as poll port status (port) values to No.
>
> I hope, it helps.
>
> Regards
> Rajashekar
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Kirchner [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 11:22 AM
> To: spectrum
> Subject: [spectrum] Silence Ports
>
> What is the best way to silence a port on a switch or router that you never
> want to hear from again? Is it as simple as disabling polling? Will that
> prevent traps on that interface from generating alarms as well? We have a
> few ports with devices that we have no control over and no responsibility to
> monitor, so we want to remove that noise from our monitoring. We are
> currently stuffing these in maintenance mode, but that does not appear
> optimal.
>
> -Ken
> Spectrum 9.2 H03
>
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