Is there a command to run diagnostics on a single switch port on a line card in a 6807-XL Switch?  We have a C6800-32P10G and the LED for port 32 on that card we have all ports disabled and the other ports are solid amber/orange.  There are no SFP's in any of the ports at this time.  In an identical switch with the same model line card in the same slot (5), the LED goes green and then solid amber/orange.  That switch doesn't have any SFPs in it either and ports are administratively down like the other switch.  Is there a command I can run on that specific port to see if we have a bad port? ... View more

I'm having yet another issue with PI.  I recently upgraded to 3.3 at Cisco's suggestion to "fix" a bug on 3.2.  I have port groups created for the 3850 switch stacks at each of our sites.  I have dynamic filters set to include the following ports: name starts with GigabitEthernet description does not contain trunk description does not contain TR description does not contain router description does not contain vg224   The goal is to only put End User ports from those switch stacks in a port group so that I can then create an alarm policy to suppress alarms for the end user ports so that I'm not getting an email alert every time a user shuts down their pc or whatever.  PI is not adding all of the end user ports from the switch stacks to that port group and there's not rhyme or reason as to why it selected some ports and why it didn't select other ports with identical configurations.  Not trying to make this into a Cisco bashing session, but I'm frustrated with PI 3.x because it lacks basic functionality that other NMS have.  You can't modify the alert subject or body to help you distinguish an alert especially when you're looking at it on your phone.  All Alerts are like "Alarm Category - Switches and Routers; Severity - "  I'm most familiar with Solar Winds so I'm going to use them as an example.  With SW, I can create a subject based on pretty much whatever I want.  I can create a subject for router interfaces that says "Alert - Chicago WAN Router Interface Down".  When I get that email to my phone, I know it's important by just looking at the subject and it gives me a sense of urgency to take action.  I've brought this up to Cisco TAC before but I don't think Cisco is putting any serious thought into making this product more administrator friendly. ... View more

We just got a full 1GB internet link.  It's going to be for internet only.  Is it recommended to police it or shape it or can I just let it ride??? ... View more