I frequently used the server-based NCM's 7.3 (and earlier) application to display the last time data was input on Cisco ports.
I used the information from this field whenever a Desktop Support Tech would call to say a switch was out of open ports. It was a quick and easy matter to open NCM's app on the server, select the switch and pull down the Cisco Last input option. Voila! The last time all ports received incoming data was present in an exportable and sortable column.
If there were ports that had been down for a very long time, I'd have the tech unpatch them for reuse. If there were none, it was time to order another switch.
NCM 7.4 doesn't allow running the application on the server--only via the Web UI.
The 7.4 Web UI has a similar looking drop down to that of the NCM 7.3 on-board-server-app, but the Last Time Data Was Transmitted or Received option / column is not present.
A brief conversation with Jiri at SW suggested this may have been removed and repurposed for UDT.
Can anyone show Cisco interface "Last input" info in NCM 7.4 today? Am I missing an option in getting to to show in NCM 7.4?
The Last input option is not present to select as a column.
A CLI session to the same switch shows the information present in a "show interface" command:
GigabitEthernet1/46 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
Last input 5w6d, output never, output hang never
Is this functionality really gone from NCM 7.4?
Can I manually recover it with a Universal Device Poller? But that wouldn't work for every Cisco device, would it, since there are so many different models of switches?