Discovery of Cisco Stacked Switches - New York

[David77]

When we Discover a Cisco Stacked Switch, it does not create 1 CI for each switch in stack, but 1 CI, with information about the other switches in stack.   Our network team would like to have 1 CI for each with a hardware relationship showing how they are in a single stack. They want each switch in the stack to have a unique serial number.

Is this possible with out-of-the-box Discovery functionality?
I've done some research, but not finding anything useful for us.

Thanks!

[Ashutosh Munot1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Dave,

Is the Stacked Switch pattern enabled? Are you using probes or patterns?

Thanks,
Ashutosh

[David77]

Ashutosh, we recently converted to Patterns in a non-PROD, and what a difference!

Discovery of stacked switches is 100% better. 

Now, if only all SNMP Discovery was converted to Patterns - we struggle to know which SNMP Discoveries were converted, as unlike other Discoveries, it seems SNMP does not have message containing the word "pattern" in their logs to let you know. 

Is there a definitive list of what has or has not been converted?

Thanks.  

[Ashutosh Munot1]

Hi,

On docs you will get to know that.

Thanks,
Ashutosh

[pratiksha5]

Hi @Ashutosh Munot, We have to discover stack switches and the network team wanted the complete routing table information. Is it possible? 

[Jha1]

Hello David ,

We are facing the similar issue . Could you please let me know how you had proceeded in the past in order to individual CI's for each switch in the stack. 

[arordeep]

Did you get an answer on this?  We are experiencing the same issue in our environment.  We have Stacked Switches pattern enabled and we could see the information is being fetched for stacked switches in the logs but not creating the individual CIs.