For example: I would like to monitor interface output drops on all switches supporting "1.3.6.1.4.1.30065.3.6.1.2.1.6.%%x.1.0" where %%x is the interface ID and .1.0 is only what I would like to poll for. If a get-table is performed there could be 100's or 1000's of pieces of information that is basically useless. Does anyone know if something like this exists?
There are two ways that I can do this at the moment.
1 is a custom script that i've written which uses the above mib and references interface numbers1-48 and then parses all of the output into a nice little email that looks like:
Tue Jan 14 13:16:07 2014
Router1
- - <- Interfaces are "clean" so nothing is reported
Router2
Interface 38 149701 <- WAN interface connecting this router to another in a different geographical location.
Interface 40 2748 <- Layer2 port-channel member to router 1
This script is executed on 8 other routers.. I've also come to find out that the mib above isn't supported on 6 of the routers to the values being returned aren't actually valid so i will have to create another script to poll for those devices this same way. This is pretty cumbersome and the historical data is in email which doesn't do any good for someone looking for it in NPM via a custom resource or something of that nature..
2. I can create 384 seperate device pollers with each being tied to an interface and then creating alerts/alarms based off of the output. this is getting in somewhat of the right direction but again.. 384 seperate pollers is a bit much and there are plenty more devices to roll this out to. I will say that this option was the one recommended by SW support.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Ryan