Allow mutilple protocols during NCM inventory tasks

mr.e

As you know, NCM performs its inventory jobs via SNMP only.  This is usually fine, provided that the node is not experiencing SNMP problems.  However, it would be great if NCM allowed SSH (v2 or v3) and TFTP as well.  Many other competing applications do allow for multiple protocols during their jobs against network devices.

In any event, allowing multiple protocols  would be a great help.  This way, if the node(s) are having SNMP problems the inventory task won't result in failures.

sja

Hi mr.e​

That is not new or news :-/

You can work around the SSH just fine with custom templates.

Like this one for Cisco

Cisco Devices template with "show Module"

You use the backup template to get that data from cli to NCM.

I stopped running snmp inventory jobs. I use cli backup of the inventory.

What NCM PMs needs to take look at is:

support for Rest API and NETCONF as source for inventory.