Hi Ken Normaly i put into maintenance, but that dont stop the monitoring, just the alarms. Anyway... to reconfigure the reduce the monitoring thought the Policy Manager
enter here http://www.dachsug.ch/wiki/index.php/PolicyManager and read about "How to reduce Bad Link Error with the Policy Manager" Hope that help to! Diego Pereyra Netsol International On 07/08/2011 12:50 AM, Kenneth Kirchner wrote: > 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 >> >> >> --- >> To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: >> unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> DISCLAIMER: >> This email (including any attachments) is intended for the sole use of the >> intended recipient/s and may contain material that is CONFIDENTIAL AND >> PRIVATE COMPANY INFORMATION. Any review or reliance by others or copying or >> distribution or forwarding of any or all of the contents in this message is >> STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact >> the sender by email and delete all copies; your cooperation in this regard >> is appreciated. >> >> --- >> To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: >> unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] > > --- > To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: > unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] > --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
