We get hit with indirect link failures that we have to rely on Cacti to show. Sadly, it can take our NOC guys hours to detect. I'm thinking a TCL script that watches ifHCInOctets (.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.6) and ifHCOutOctets (1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.10) a...

I'm trying to prevent people from creating vlans on our switches. The problem is I can restrict them to "switchport access vlan" but if they use a vlan that isn't on the switch it creates it automagically. Short of creating all my vlans and putting ...

When I poll a PIX for ifInDiscards and ifOutDiscards are these counters considered packet loss? The wording is a little vague:"The number of outbound packets which were chosen to be discarded even though no errors had been detected to prevent their ...