I have a similar issue with a Netgear FS726T switch. I believe the
Netgear SNMP implementation is simply ignoring whatever you add for
interface descriptions via the switch management interface.
I raised a ticket with Netgear about this, but they ignored that
too, so it's not likely this will ever be fixed by them.
To give me some sensible info (I only have a couple of switches to
monitor) and as I was only interested in snmp trap events, I added
some code in the events to lookup the snmp port ID against a table
and add my own description. Obviously this solution won't really
scale.
It would be really helpful if Zenoss allowed me to set the
description for a particular interface manually.
This is a very good point. Currently the properties of an interface
(like description) are only editable in the user interface if the
interface was created manually by the user, but not if the interfaces
was modeled. I've created a ticket to revisit the thinking behind this
decision and potentially handle it better.
Ticket #2524: Revisit relevance of OSComponent.userCreatedFlag
http://dev.zenoss.org/trac/ticket/2524
You can currently set the description using zendmd if you really need
to. Here's an example of how to do this.
for interface in find("device.name").os.interfaces():
if interface.name() == 'eth0':
interface.description = 'Your description for the eth0 interface
goes here.'
commit()
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