Losing "Free Port" information after Switch Restart

[cRAYonhere]

Expected Behavior

After switch reboot, we would like to have the ability to see when was the last time a node was seen on the port.

Current Behavior

If the switch reboots, the "Free Port" information is lost.

Possible Solution

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Context

Due to switch upgrades and power failures switches are rebooted and all the data pertaining to "Free Port" is lost. This creates problems later when we try to weed out un-used ports.

Your Environment

• Netdisco version used:
• SNMP::Info version used:

Device information

[inphobia]

i'm not quite sure what to make of this, for me this works just fine. here's an access point i used as an example:

as you can see both archived clients (the one with the book icon in front of them) as active clients are shown; reboots didn't make a difference.

relevant config i'm using:

nbtstat_no: "any"
node_freshness: 1500
expire_jobs: 5
#expire_nodes: 3
expire_nodes_archive: 75
devport_vlan_limit: 250

schedule:
  discoverall:
    when: '5 3,7,11,15,19,23 * * *'
  macwalk:
    when:
      min: 55
      hour: '*/4'
  arpwalk:
    when:
      min: 5
      hour: '*/4'
  nbtwalk: null
  expire:
    when: '30 23 * * *'

[cRAYonhere]

Hey, thanks for your reply. We use the "Port Free" property to identify which ports have not been used in the past 3-6 months. Apologies for not being descriptive enough with my issue. I am currently out of office. I will test with the options selected in your screenshot to see if it fulfils our requirements and get back to you with screenshots of what exactly we are seeing and what we expect to see. Thanks!

[cRAYonhere]

I believe there is a misunderstanding of our problem, hope this makes it clear.
The first picture shows that the following 9 ports are free for the last 5 days

The switch was down 6 days ago

So when I query for ports that were in-active(Port Free) for more than 6 days. I don't get any results.

I wanted to have a way by which I could retain and access data even after the switch goes down.

Reason: When we weed out un-used ports we remove ports that haven't been in use for 6 months or more. But due to switch upgrades and unscheduled switch reboot, we lose this information.

[ollyg]

Hi @cRAYonhere I have implemented a change to the free ports displayed in both the Port Utilisation report and also the Device Ports page, which should overcome this issue with switch reboot. When we issue a new release I would be grateful if you could upgrade and let us know how it goes for you. Many thanks!