Hi I'd like to Auto Discover and Monitor only Interfaces on my cisco switches witch I tag by the interface description.

Example: tag <MON>

interface FastEthernet0/1 description <MON> text --> Port monitored in PRTG

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interface FastEthernet0/2 description text !--> Port not monitored in PRTG

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Is there a way to do that?

Regards Andi

Article Comments

Hello Andi,

Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment. As workaround you can try the following:

  1. Navigate to the device settings (or group settings)
  2. Below "SNMP Compatibility Options" add [ifdescr] to the "Port Name Template"
  3. (Please also take a look at "Port Name Update")
    Now the Sensors will be displayed with the description in their name, so you can easily choose and/or delete them.

For any further questions or issues, we're glad to help.

Kind regards,
Birk Guttmann, Tech Support Team


Sep, 2018 - Permalink

Yeah, that would be a great feature as most of the people just want to monitor important ports like switch - switch connections or interfaces connected to important devices like Storage, FW, server, ...

I know some use exactly that feature together with other solutions to define on the cisco device itself what interfaces they want to have monitored and which not.

regards dani


Jun, 2019 - Permalink

Hi there,

Feel free to open an official feature request, so other users can vote for this.

Kind regards,
Birk Guttmann, Tech Support Team


Jul, 2019 - Permalink