[c-nsp] Available Ethernet switch ports

[Dan Martin]

There are a number of free mib browsers out there.  

http://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp/

is one of them.

Find the system up time.  

If the system has been up for whatever you judge to be enough time to
know for sure.

Query the interface mib.

Look at the interface table.

Every interface that is down and that has octets in and out at zero is
probably not in use.

Now, this assumes that snmp is turned on in the switches, that you know
their addresses, that they support the interface mib, and that you have
the community strings.






-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Anning, Mike
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 1:36 AM
To: Jon Lewis; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Available Ethernet switch ports

Thanks to all those who have replied.

Yes I can do all of those things, including all the show commands, but I
wondered if there was something simple that the local Microsoft support
boys could use instead of calling on me each time.
I should have been clearer in my request, I didn't really want something
that polls all the time, more something these guys can launch and find
out the status as and when.

They cannot log into the switches directly.

Many thanks
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jon Lewis
Sent: 11 July 2005 14:47
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Available Ethernet switch ports


On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Jeff Kell wrote:

> Jim McBurnett wrote:
> > Look up solarwinds.net
>
> And bring your checkbook!

Solarwinds to see which ports are available is like nuking a city to
take out the termites in your house.  It's got lots of other features
you may like...but if all you want is to know which ports are free, is
there a reason you can't look at ifstatus and perhaps recent history
traffic graphs to see A) if it's up now, and B) if it's not up now, was
there traffic on it recently?

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