Autom8 Plugin

[msw1970]

Hi

I'm looking to use the autom8 plugin for graph creation. In particular I want to be able to automatically create graphs for any 802.1q tagged links when a new device is created and to also do this on some sort of nightly batch job so that any new 802.1q tagged links on existing devices.

It's not practical for us to graph all device interfaces, the volume would just be too much, we're currently at around 52k datasources from around 2100 devices being polled in approx 100 seconds using spine and boost.

Does anyone know whether this is possible?

Thanks

[Howie]

I do exactly this, except my criteria is ethernet-type ports that are up. Autom8 does it for new devices automatically (once you have set up the rule), and I run a cron job twice daily to look for existing devices.

php cli/poller_reindex_hosts.php -id=123
will trigger autom8 to run on device 123

I've attached one of my autom8 rules, if you need a pointer for that.

[msw1970]

Thanks Howie but I'm not so sure that will work for me.... I need to be specific on only graphing the 802.1q tagged uplink ports so as to avoid graphing circa 60k user ports!!!

[Howie]

Thanks Howie but I'm not so sure that will work for me.... I need to be specific on only graphing the 802.1q tagged uplink ports so as to avoid graphing circa 60k user ports!!!

Do all those uplink ports have something nice like 'Uplink' or 'Trunk' in the port description? You can match of parts of strings in the name. I think you'd need vendor-specific MIBs to find the ports, otherwise (and then convince Autom8 to look at those).

[msw1970]

That's what I feared... Unfortunately there's no simple text string in the port description to look for either...

Anyway, just realised another issue with trying to look for 802.1q tagged ports... All the user ports are also tagged for data and VoIP vlans!!

Back to the drawing board I think!!