You can configure the Cisco device to issue an SNMPtrap whenever there is a link event. You then catch those and manage them as events. Trap management is more efficient than poll management, but can be tricky in getting the event correlation working like you want. For example, you wouldn't want an event everytime a person turned off their laptop to go home!
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of latent > Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 12:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [zenoss-users] Monitoring the Status of a Cisco Interface... > > Hi! I'm trying to monitor a Cisco router - basically I would > like to be alerted if a line fails - meaning if an interface > goes offline, for any reason. > > I see the interface list just fine in the OS tab of the > device, but they don't seem to update. But I carried on, and > found that I could query the ifOperStatus datasource, and if > it returns a 1, then we're doing well, and if it returns a 2, > then the interface has failed. So I made a template, and set > a threshold, of ifOperStatus > 1, critical alarm. This works > fine when I do it to a 'local copy' template. > > However, I can't see a way to set the template for an > individual interface, and when I have zenoss model the > device, it assigns all the interfaces, used or otherwise, the > ethernetCsmacd template. Is there any way to configure the > template for an individual interface? > > Or, is there an easier way to monitor Cisco interfaces that I > totally missed? > > Thanks for any help! > > ------------------------ > unset > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=9812#9812 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users > _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
