Command to see if a port was ever up and passed traffic

[mbrunton77]

I am looking to find a command or counter to tell me if a cisco switch port on a 4510 was ever up and passed traffic.  I want to shutdown all unused switchports on our access switches.  But before I do that I need to make sure device is just not off or the person is away on vacation.  If I do sh int interface, is there a counter I can reference.

[Daniel Thomas · Accepted solution]

The

"sh interface counters"

should show you if any traffic has passed through a port since the last reboot or since the counters were las cleared on that interface. (Which you can check with "sh interface")

In a previous employment we had to clear the counters across the switch fabric and then check them 3 months later, any ports that had shown no increase were closed.

[Dan-Ciprian Cicioiu]

Hi ,

show interface x/x  >>>>> Last input and outpuit counters

Dan

[glen.grant]

Use "show interface link "  , that tells youi when it was last used.  Only valid on the 4500 series switches... Don't know why they never ported that useful command to their other products...

[Dan-Ciprian Cicioiu]

Hi Glen,

I didn't knew about this command. Though the output is corelated with the uptime of the switch and gets the same result of "show interface x/x | i Last in"

switch#s ver | i upt

switch uptime is 24 minutes

switch#show interfaces Gi1/1 | i Last

  Last input never, output never, output hang never

  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never

switch#show int link | i 1/1

Gi1/1                     24 minutes 57 secs      00:53:54  Tue Sep 27 2011

switch#

On the show interface you see that Last input is never, because it takes the starting point the time when it got up.

Regards

Dan