Refer to the Autodiscovery section on the Edit Watch Admin page for details of how to configure autodiscovery.

Once enabled, Highlight will display and start monitoring any multilinks or bonded ports associated with the monitored interface within 30 minutes.

If you are linking multiple switch ports into a single virtual channel then Highlight can autodiscover the individual ports (members) by selecting the option ‘Multilink interfaces’ in the Features tab, Autodiscovery section. Once discovered Highlight will start monitoring them individually and can alert if any port members go down. Autodiscovery will only work for negotiated channels which use either Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) or Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP).

Other terms used to describe the link aggregation method include port bonding, port trunking, link bundling, Ethernet bonding, network bonding, NIC bonding, or NIC teaming.

If the monitored bearer in Highlight is built using Cisco Multilink Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) technology then Highlight can discover the physical links bonded by it by using the option ‘Multilink interfaces’ in the Features tab, Autodiscovery section. This is valuable for checking the traffic is balanced over the links and the links are reliable.

The set bandwidth is based on the interface name of the discovered multilink as shown here: