[opennms-discuss] What Is The Best Way To Monitor Ethernet Ports?

[Aaron L. <al...@ut...>]

Hello,

 

I have been researching how to monitor interfaces/ports that have no IP
address associated with them. We are monitoring Alcatel switches, all ports
are switch ports with no IP addresses associated with them. What is the best
way to monitor these ports? We need real time checks. Is it better to get
the trap when the port goes down and then process a notification on that? Or
is it better to poll devices' ports using the port OID for status? 

 

Aaron Leach

Network Engineer