How to calculate the number of ports interface_traffic probe is monitoring

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Looking for way how to calculate how many interfaces that are being monitoring on each of the network device.

Cause

N/A

Environment

interface_traffic probe.

Resolution

interface_traffic probe offers a probe callback named "get_total_interface_count" which give you number of monitored interfaces.

How to run the callback from Infrastructure Manager.

Highlight interface_traffic probe, CTRL+P, then Probe Utility dialog is opening.

Select "get_total_interface_count" in the Probe commandset dropdown, then press green (execute) button.

How to run the callback from command line.

> cd <UIM Install Path>\bin

> pu -u <UIM user> -p <password> /<domain>/<hub>/<robot>/interface_traffic get_total_interface_count

Additional Information

Interface_traffic  - This probe is no longer supported as of October 1, 2017. This probe is replaced by the snmpcollector probe.

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/GA/alphabetical-probe-articles/interface-traffic-interface-traffic-monitoring-no-longer-supported.html

Snmpcollector documentation:
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/GA/alphabetical-probe-articles/snmpcollector-snmp-data-monitoring.html