Hi,
Anyone with experience in SQL queries and combining custom MIB pollers to create a combined GUI view or report?
A solution for following issue would bring benefits to lots of people I think...
We want to add a Node detail listing the Spanning Tree Port Status of all important Interfaces of a Switch.
In NPM this only can be achieved with Custom MIB Pollers, since there is no "out of the box" solution.
Unfortunately SNMP Queries for StpPortState list based on an unique Index number and so the output is not human readable:
Again, the left column is not directly related to the IfMIB IfIndex value...
So what we would have to do here is:
1. Query the dot1dStpPortState Table – it delivers the STP State per port but with an at this point unknown ID as key value!
2. Query the dot1dBasePortIfIndex Table which then links between IfIndex and StpPortIndex
3. Query the IfMIBs translation Table for IfIndex to IfDescription
4. Combine IfDescription with corresponding StpPortState and list in output
As far as I understand NPM, this combination of pollers can only be done via custom SQL queries and combine values via customized reports which are then added as a resource onto the Node detail View, right?
Is there a tough guy accepting this challenge?
I already opened a support ticket - unfortunately the outcome was "We are not doing DBA support and do not have the knowledge to create such queries"...
Thanks for any help on this!
Cheers
Herwig
p.s.: Monitoring Spanning Tree is essential for enterprise LAN networks,
unfortunately this is not implemented in Solarwinds products as out of the box solution.
There are several threads here and most without propper solution.