I think i've been going about building my templates for switches wrong. Could someone share the process you went thru to get accurate switch port descriptions on graphs? Thanks!
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Walk your switch with the IF-MIB (assuming your switch supports the IF-MIB):
snmpwalk -v2c -c communityname -m IF-MIB someswitch
You're looking for the following:
IF-MIB::ifAlias.1
IF-MIB::ifAlias.2
etc...
works fine for Cisco switches.
from the IF-MIB.txt:
ifAlias OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX DisplayString (SIZE(0..64))
MAX-ACCESS read-write
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object is an 'alias' name for the interface as
specified by a network manager, and provides a non-volatile
'handle' for the interface.
(snip)
An example of the value which a network manager might store
in this object for a WAN interface is the (Telco's) circuit
number/identifier of the interface.
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