[j-nsp] [OT] unit-level vs interface-level description

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Wed May 29 17:34:58 EDT 2013


On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 04:14:11 PM Daniel Roesen wrote:

> Given that most management applications discover the SNMP
> interface instance with the IP address attached to it
> and display the interface description of that ifIndex
> only, I usually only use the logical interface (unit)
> description. Unless with multi-unit interfaces, where I
> document the physical remote side in physical interface
> level description, and the service description on the
> unit.
> 
> Same goes for switches - using the unit-level description
> generally, with addition physical interface description
> for trunk remote system/port documentation.

Same here.

Mark.
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