Hello everyone and especially RouterOS developers.
I’m setting up cacti for bandwidth monitoring and archiving in my network.(Using Dude as well but it’s other kind of thing)
So when i’m adding devices like Cisco or Zyxell to Cacti SNMP poll, i can see aliases on interfaces e.g. comments/description for port:
like ifIndex=ether1 (or ifName, ifDescr) ifAlias=Upstream1
I can do thing like only with Coments in RouterOS for interface which are not binded to interface query in SNMP. Ex:
;;Upstream1
-----ether1
It would be nice to add another field in winbox “Interface Config Window” with name ~“IfAlias” and make it to be send with SNMP query ifAlias like other vendors do.
also not all interfaces sending proper SNMP queries
some interfaces remane with brocken names when in the same time other hundred interfaces got their names from query by snmp/cacti variables:
One working interface out of many others:
|query_ifAlias| - Int: ether2.85(44)@RB450G-49
Interfaces have same configurations: vlan interfaces.
query_ifAlias ------ not shown coz not set in mib.. (shown in cisco or zyxell devices, like MyHomePort, Proveder2, Upstream4 (simple desc/comment on int.))
also one interfaces shows only Upload
other interface shows only Download
Dude shows both Down/Up
cacti, poller, rrdtool checked and rechecked nothing wrong.
other interfaces ~20 with same config are just OK showing both Down/Up
but i’ve mentioned that this happens mostly on Ethrnet interfaces…VLAN interfaces even on this Ethrnet are OK.
checked
snmpwalk shows correct results.
even checked snmpwalk from Dude, which shows exact structure of sent queries in tables with values.
but general subject of this article is to add Alias field inside interface configuration with its output snmp query ifAlias as other have. it would give perfect documentation ability for topologies. even for dude it would be able to show name of connected interfaces on links.
