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Re: up/down ruleset

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Subject: Re: up/down ruleset
From: "Boyles, Gary P" <gary.p.boyles@INTEL.COM>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 15:54:22 -0700
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Greg,
If you're concerned about "node-down" events, why are you looking
at "interface-down" events.  For this rule, why don't you just look at
the "node-down" events?

gary.p.boyles@intel.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Redder [SMTP:redder@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 3:17 PM
> To:   NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Subject:      up/down ruleset
>
> I need a ruleset that detects when a node has gone up AND down 3 times
> in 30 minutes.  I'm looking for catching the condition whereby a
> router reboots itself.  I'm close, but I'm missing some logic which
> I'm not sure how to apply within a ruleset.
>
> The trick is catching the pattern:  node down -> node up -> node down
> -> node up -> node down -> node up
>
> I thought I was clever at first, by just looking for receiving 3 node down
> events in 30 minutes.  This didn't work because, for example, we have a
> router with several serial interfaces on it for our remote sites.  One
> thunderstorm on the Eastern Plains of Colorado and those nodes typically
> "disappear" for a while (lightning and those remote 56K lines don't get
> along so well <smile>).  The problem is that my ruleset checks for 3
> interfaces down signals in 30 minutes from the "origin" attribute.  Well,
> I learned that if an interface with 2 IP addresses configured on it goes
> down, I'll get 3 interface down traps each time it goes down: 2 for each
> network that's down on the interface and one from the router indicating
> that it has a down interface.  The problem is that these 3 traps all carry
> the same "origin" attribute and will satisfy the ruleset.
>
> You can't just check for 3 ups and 3 downs because you have the same
> problem.  What I really need is to ensure that I get those traps
> in the order of down,up,down,up,down,up and only then will I page
> out the problem.  I need to create a ruleset where the order
> of the traps over a period of time matters and I don't understand
> how to do this???
>
> Thank you --Greg Redder
>             Network Analyst
>             Colorado State University
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