Switches are always the first point of contact for each device in your network, so if there is an issue, you want to be the first to know about it. Monitoring switches in Orion NPM is similar to monitoring routers, but with a few additional requirements.
When opening the Node Details View page for a switch in Orion NPM, you will find that all of the modules for monitoring a router are included here as well. You can view the response time and packet loss data, CPU and memory load, and more. However, the All Interfaces on the Selected Node may be your most important module when monitoring a switch. The All Interfaces on the Selected Node module displays all of the interfaces that are being monitored by Orion NPM. Take a look at the following screenshot:
There are two types of ports being monitored in this example. The first is a Proprietary Virtual interface type and the second is an Ethernet type. The first interface type is actually an EtherChannel port on the switch. Any type of...