Ports Status Changes between certain times on Cisco 3850s

[anovis82]

I am trying to find out which ports have been used or which ports have status changes within the day i.e between ports that have gone from down to up during the hours of 6am and 6pm etc.

Is there a way to report port or track status changes during the day?

Caan be from Cisco Prime or directly from the switch, script would be easier, but if there is even a manual way, then it's worth a shot.

Cisco 3850 Running 16.3.6

[omz]

Hi 

You could use syslog and log the info.

You can also script .. 

Manually .. sh logging | i UPDOWN

[anovis82]

Great Thanks for you help!

I will give it a go and come back and let you know how it goes.

Thanks again!

[omz · Accepted solution]

You could do something like this ..  

#!/usr/bin/env python

from netmiko import ConnectHandler
import re
from datetime import datetime

today = datetime.today().strftime('%B %d')
print(today)

cisco = {
'device_type': 'cisco_ios',
'host': 'REPLACE_WITH_IP',
'username': 'REPLACE_WITH_USERNAME',
'password': 'REPLACE_WITH_PASSWORD'
'port': '22'
}

net_connect = ConnectHandler(**cisco)
output = net_connect.send_command('',expect_string=r'#',strip_command=False, strip_prompt=False)
output += net_connect.send_command('show log | i UPDOWN',expect_string=r'#',strip_command=False, strip_prompt=False)
net_connect.disconnect()

DATE_RE = today + '.*'
matched = re.findall(DATE_RE,output)

for line in matched:
	print(line)

#print(output)

tested on sandbox -