How do I exclude unwanted interfaces from polling/license count.
One of the major benefits of Statseeker is its ability to poll huge networks from a single server. But sometimes there are interfaces we don’t want to poll.
- Almost all network devices will have a loopback interface. This interface typically doesn’t carry traffic that is useful from a monitoring point of view, and therefore doesn’t need to be monitored
- It’s common that Windows servers will present multiple virtual interfaces in addition to the ‘real’ interfaces that we care about
- Ethernet switches carrying VLAN traffic will often populate a virtual interface for each VLAN. These virtual interfaces can usually be ignored because the important statistics can be gathered from the underlying real interface
Each of these interfaces, real or virtual, important or not, will consume an interface license on your Statseeker server. No problem if you have lots more licenses than you need. But if not, it would be useful to know how to free up some of these licenses consumed by these un-necessary interfaces, so you could then re-deploy them on additional interfaces that do carry important traffic.
How can we easily find out how many licenses are used, and how many remain available? The “License Key” page on the Admin tool tells us this information.