[j-nsp] EX4200 24 SFP ports not showing

[Olof Kasselstrand]

>>On the EX-series the ports don't actually show up until you insert an
>>optic (this is true for GE and 10GE on all EX's AFAIK). As soon as you
>>do insert the SFP, the port will show up, and you'll start graphing it.

OK, now that's confirmed =)

However, I can't see the other ports with SNMP without plugging in a
SFP. If I try to specify an ifindex (for a port without a SFP) when
doing a snmpget I get no answer. I can specify an ifindex with for a
port with a SFP just fine.

// Olof

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:52:53AM +1000, Olof Kasselstrand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a EX4200 24 SFPs switch. When I try show interface terse only
>> the port with SFP is shown. If I do a show inter ge-0/0/7 I get device
>> not found if there is no SFP plugged in. Is it possible to change
>> this?
>>
>> This is causing me trouble when I want to setup graphs for this
>> switch. The interfaces don't show up in SNMP either. It would be nice
>> to add all ports and as soon as I start using one port I'll get the
>> graphs.
>
> On the EX-series the ports don't actually show up until you insert an
> optic (this is true for GE and 10GE on all EX's AFAIK). As soon as you
> do insert the SFP, the port will show up, and you'll start graphing it.
>
> This is really only a problem if you use some horrible SNMP poller with
> static ifindex mappings (like MRTG), in which case the answer should be
> to upgrade your SNMP poller as fast as is humanly possible.
>
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