topic Re: Unused Ports for Aerohive and Extreme Switches in ExtremeCloudIQ in ExtremeSwitching (EXOS/Switch Engine)

Unused Ports for Aerohive and Extreme Switches in ExtremeCloudIQ

bswaby — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:17:23 GMT

I know in Cisco switches I can pull state changes and get a date for the last time a port was active, but for the life of me I cannot find that option on our Aerohive branded switches, Extreme branded switches, or within ExtremeCloud IQ.

Do you know of any way I can pull reports to help find unused ports either through SSH or through ExtremeCloud IQ?

I have searched the community, but most seem to point to some Extreme Management Suite that we are not running.

TIA

Ben

Re: Unused Ports for Aerohive and Extreme Switches in ExtremeCloudIQ

Stefan_K_ — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:13:01 GMT

Hi Ben,

For EXOS (Extreme Switches) you can do it via SSH/CLI:

show ports information

This will display a consolidated overview of all ports that shows - among other things - if a port was ever up since the last boot. This can be used to filter out these ports quickly.

show ports information detail

This will display the last link up / link down of ports.

By default both commands show the output for all ports, this can be limited.

show ports 1 information detail show ports 1,4,7 information detail show ports 1-24 information detail

Re: Unused Ports for Aerohive and Extreme Switches in ExtremeCloudIQ

bswaby — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:52:31 GMT

Thanks for the update. I wish those worked on HiveOS as a majority of our switches are running on that. The only way I could see is either through some monitoring utility, which I don't have, or clearing the counters and trusting that.

Re: Unused Ports for Aerohive and Extreme Switches in ExtremeCloudIQ

Rey_Juan_Carlos — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:08:16 GMT

I use this to filter just what I want on EXOS

show port 1:1 info detail | include "Port:|Link State:|Link Ups:|Link Downs"