Cabling 2960x stacksub1

[Jason Williamson]

Hello peers!

I THINK i have a simple question, but it's just an odd quirky one. I have a couple standalone, un-stacked 2960Xs out there with a stacking module in the back. Proactive monitoring software is picking those up as critical, down stacking ports because they're not hooked up to another stacking module (bc it's a standalone switch).

When I remove the cards, the proactive monitoring software is still showing the system as having them - is there something i can do to remove them from a hardware database (like deleting a vlan.dat to clean out vlans would do)?

I don't see anything in CLI for provisioning the module

I dont see any stacking modules in show-inventory

Next thoughts?

Thx!

[Larry Sullivan]

What is your monitoring software (I hope it's not called Proactive)?  I would look at getting the software to ignore the stack module state.

[Jason Williamson]

i think i figured it out. The tool is solarwinds - but i wanted to point to the cisco device and how to straighten myself out with it. :)

I have told the monitoring software to ignore those interfaces, but there is automation built into that software, it may re-discover it. 

I looked back through the config, and i THINK what it's doing is... I entered a "switch 1 priority 15" command, even though there isn't a stack - and the switch somehow assumes it's god a module - somewhere only Solarwinds would be smart enough to pick up from! 

[Larry Sullivan]

Nice.  Yeah, we run SW too.  We just click list resources when on the node page and select or un-select interfaces and save.  No auto re-discovering in ours although that seems more useful than not.