On 2014-03-29 19:07, John Poznicek wrote:
I want to say thanks for such a productive link -- maybe that product has better support ;)
http://tinyurl.com/sweetthankyou [3]
With no help from you or anyone on the list, I have it worked out while providing the info back on how it was accomplished.. Which you would think would be welcome to a list for users of product to help each other..
I would really love to hear why not listing the nonsense windows sends back via snmp makes no sense? Really you want interfaces listed showing nothing and just taking up space? Windows show 19 interfaces via snmp - while there is actually 1 that is in use and showing data. Listing them all is just beyond stupid!!
Our target market is service providers and telcos monitoring primarily carrier-grade network devices and the occasional server. Cisco is by far our most commonly monitored device.
In such environments it's anathema to purposefully remove information, because everything is useful. We automate as much as possible because humans forget to add things to their monitoring system. We make it purposefully difficult to remove things because there are rarely instances where you'd want to do that in an service provider environment.
You'll also find that people who work at SPs rarely have time to micro-manage their monitoring system, thus our approach of "graph everything, look at it if you need it".
We take the approach that as default we don't want to ignore too much, but we certainly provide methods to do it in the config. Users with large windows environments can easily mask the commonly existing interface types they don't want to see either by ifDescr or ifType.
adam.