<![CDATA[Changing the name of switch ports]]>After we did our network discovery, NetXMS pulled all the ports from all our managed switches.  We decided that we want to name the switch ports on our devices so we know what port is what in NetXMS.  So on our test switch, we renamed the ports on our DELL 5224.  Is there a way to get NetXMS to read the new port information and rename all the interfaces?

Also, we had some stale dns records in our reverse dns ptr's.  We are cleaning those up as well.  How can we have NetXMS re-read the new dns records?

Thank you,
Kevin

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/topic/209/changing-the-name-of-switch-portsRSS for NodeFri, 13 Nov 2026 23:10:31 GMTMon, 04 Feb 2008 16:14:52 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the name of switch ports on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:39:41 GMT]]>@kghammond said in Changing the name of switch ports:

Any rough idea when you may finish the next release?

It should be very soon. Actually, I have plans to release it in January, but I have stuck on one required functionality (advanced event correlation), so release was postponed. The good side of it is that I will be able to include additional minor features like this.

Best regards,
Victor

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/1037https://forum.netxms.org/post/1037Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:39:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the name of switch ports on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:30:50 GMT]]>Thank You, we are just starting to use NetXMS and it seems great so far and we are looking forward to the improvements of the next version.

Any rough idea when you may finish the next release?

Thanks again,
Kevin

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/1035https://forum.netxms.org/post/1035Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:30:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the name of switch ports on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:12 GMT]]>About custom port names: I have similar request from Cisco users, and will definitely add it to the next release. Looks like using OID .1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18 should be universal way for all standard-compliant platforms.

Best regards,
Victor

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/1031https://forum.netxms.org/post/1031Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:43:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the name of switch ports on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:19:43 GMT]]>There is also a DELL MIB OID for port name:
.1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10895.4.1.2.1.1.2

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/1022https://forum.netxms.org/post/1022Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:19:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the name of switch ports on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:17:06 GMT]]>@kghammond said in Changing the name of switch ports:

Thank you, I did manually force a configuration poll before posting.  But, after doing a SNMPWALK, it seems that the names being returned via SNMP are hardcoded interface names, not the names we assigned each port  😞

I am guessing that we will need to manually name each port, since NetXMS will not be able to query a differnet name for the port.

I will post to the wishlist.

Thank you, and I just want to reiterate that this product seems to be well done and it seems to fit a nice niche.  We have been searching for a tool similar to this for awhile.  Most of the monitoring tools will either monitor or they will track performance, but few can do both relatively well.

Thanks again,
Kevin

Actually, after doing a more comprehensive SNMPWALK, I found the correct inteface names lised under the SNMP OID:
.1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.18

Is there a way to use this name for each port instead?

Thank you,
Kevin

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/1021https://forum.netxms.org/post/1021Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:17:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the name of switch ports on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:20:15 GMT]]>Thank you, I did manually force a configuration poll before posting.  But, after doing a SNMPWALK, it seems that the names being returned via SNMP are hardcoded interface names, not the names we assigned each port  😞

I am guessing that we will need to manually name each port, since NetXMS will not be able to query a differnet name for the port.

I will post to the wishlist.

Thank you, and I just want to reiterate that this product seems to be well done and it seems to fit a nice niche.  We have been searching for a tool similar to this for awhile.  Most of the monitoring tools will either monitor or they will track performance, but few can do both relatively well.

Thanks again,
Kevin

]]>https://forum.netxms.org/post/1019https://forum.netxms.org/post/1019Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:20:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Changing the name of switch ports on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:56:03 GMT]]>NetXMS checks interface configuration during configuration polls, which is every hour by default. You can force configuration poll for a node by right-clicking this node in object browser and then selecting Poll -> Configuration.

About DNS names: unfortunatelly, NetXMS will not re-check node names, so you will have to rename corresponding objects in NetXMS manually. If you need this feature, you can add it to wishlist on this forum.

Best regards,
Victor

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