Cisco Meraki Alerts

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Shadius
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Cisco Meraki Alerts

Hi all,

 

Can someone explain to me what the following alert means exactly.

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Would this mean that there is a hardware failure at the switch port?

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PaulMcG
Getting noticed

The alert only is only to advise that the port is down for the time indicated.  There's nothing done automatically to determine why it's down, only that it is down.

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Cross-Platform_Content/Alerts_and_Notificati...

 

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PaulMcG
Getting noticed

The alert only is only to advise that the port is down for the time indicated.  There's nothing done automatically to determine why it's down, only that it is down.

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/General_Administration/Cross-Platform_Content/Alerts_and_Notificati...

 

PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

You would more commonly use the "tagged" option (in the drop-down).

 

You can then tag ports that are important to you (such as "servers"), and get an alert if any of these ports go down.

 

Shadius
Building a reputation

Hey @PhilipDAth 

 

Do we know what the reason would be for the port being down? Hardware failure, computer going to sleep or shut down?

PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

To the best of my knowledge, simple link detection.  Anything that causes the link to go down, for any reason.

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