Re: [Devmon] Cisco 3750 Template & Newer Cisco firmware

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

On Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:13:49 Andrew Rankin wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I recently updated our Cisco 3750 switches to the newest firmware from
> Cisco and ended up breaking my devmon tests for if_col, if_dsc,
> if_err, and if_load.   It seems that Cisco has added SNMP monitoring
> of its "StackSub" ports (which I assume to be the stack interconnect
> ports on the back of the unit), in doing so they failed to add any
> information in the other statistics in the other branches about these
> ports.  This leaves me "Undefined" in the table for those ports and
> the tests end up "clear".

Does it not make more sense to exclude these ports from the affected tests for 
this device? This is what was discussed on the Hobbit list recently.

> Is there a way in devmon to have a default value defined if no data is
> returned?  In this case having the column be a default 0 would be
> preferable to an "undefined".

I don't think devmon should be guessing when it doesn't know, however if there 
is no other solution, we can look at what options are available ...

Regards,
Buchan