Efficient way to monitor switchports

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boomi
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Efficient way to monitor switchports

I want to be able to fetch switchport data via the API similar to how I would with SNMP, for the 'usual' metrics: 

  • Speed/Duplex
  • Operational / Administrative Status
  • Throughput
  • Error packets / packet types.

All of this is exposed via the API, but to the best of my knowledge, I have to make three separate calls per switch to retrieve all of this info. This isn't a problem, until the rate limiting kicks in. I do have backoff logic in place, but apparently it's not always cutting it.

 

This is what I'm doing, does anyone know of a way to reduce the calls?

 

 

 // Retrieve interface packet counts for the switch.
query('/api/v0/devices/' + device.serial + '/switchPortStatuses/packets?timespan=' + TIMESPAN)

 // Retrieve interface usage counts for the switch
query('/api/v0/devices/' + device.serial + '/switchPortStatuses?timespan=' + TIMESPAN)

// Retrieve interface statuses for the switch. Cannot use the above call because it blanks out 'status' values when a timespan is applied.
query('/api/v0/devices/' + device.serial + '/switchPortStatuses')

 

 

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PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

No way to reduce the API calls sorry.

 

The latest Python SDK does support rate-limiting.

For node.js I use bottleneck to manage it automatically.

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PhilipDAth
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

No way to reduce the API calls sorry.

 

The latest Python SDK does support rate-limiting.

For node.js I use bottleneck to manage it automatically.

Gotcha, thanks for confirming Philip.
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