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Can I be alerted to a device that has gone down on a network interface?
Some of the devices we want to monitor are coming from a switch . I understand that we can license the switch and be able to see everything that happens in the ports associated with the switch by adding them in the properties and then configure network interfaces next to IP Address. Can i have an alert sent if one of the ports has a change of status if it is only monitored and not licensed? I dont want an alert from each port if the switch goes down for obvious reasons, but i do want to know if a port on that licensed switch goes down and back up.
Hello Kristina,
That concept makes perfect sense.
You know what is behind your six ports on the switch and don't want to spend points from your license for those six devices.
Just create policies or actions and assign those to the individual ports, perhaps with meaningful text in the alert message, i.e. if port 2 has a printer-server behind it, write somethign like "Printer Server on switch port 2 is unavailable" ?
Yes. I have a 24 port switch with 6 ports on there with important devices that i want monitored. I dont care so much about the other devices on that switch. I dont want to have to license each of those 6 devices for the sole purpose of knowing their ping status. I just want to see if they are up or down. Nothing else. I do care about the status of the switch. That has quite a few monitors on it already, so its not that i dont care about it and only want the ports monitored. I am not sure if that is a possibility and i dont know how to do it. Or if this is wishful thinking. Hopefully this is a bit clearer. It makes sense in my head but there might be a disconnect on how im writing it!
Hello Kristina,
I hope I understand this correct.
You have a switch in your monitored network, the switch has many ports.
You are not interested in the overall up.down states of these ports, but rather want to be notified if Interface 1, 2, or 3 goes down but don't care for interfaces/ports 4-48 ?
You might want to look into assigning actions or policies to those individual interface monitors, rather to the switch as such.