The ability to type in a serial number and have it return the node that it belongs to.
Very helpful to management when they do audits and maintenance contracts.
I've had to create custom query for this but would prefer a better search resource like the one ipam uses.
Would you feel comfortable uploading the query? I am pathetic at SQL and I'm sure many more are that use Orion so it would help us tremendously!
Isn't this dependent on whether serials can be read with snmp. I know even with Cisco devices this isn't 100% consistent... I suppose that's no reason not to try. I have reports that list them for Dell Servers and Cisco devices but I don't get them for all. Also some of my Cisco devices have 40 serial numbers if you consider all the modules. I assume you guys are saying the chassis serial number... which for some Cisco devices is almost debatable.
My thought was the chassis serial number. My management has a nightmare of a time every year when maintenance contracts come due. Finding what was replaced and what changed is hard but if he can lookup a sn# and know its online, that would help tremendously.
And thats just the main reason...
This is based on the Hardware Health being polled - I have some Cisco 4948's which don't report due to an IOS error - in that case add a node custom property for serial number and add that to the above script (like my assettag) then you can manually enter them all for tracking...
Hi all
I am a bit confused here, and I am hoping that you smart people in here can help me out.
I can see in my NPM that I ca search for SerialNumber but this is set for text. So I read through your great idea here and I would like to do this, since we would like to search for serial numbers also.
So here is where I am getting a bit stuck.... When I am making my custom properties and I have choosen my nodes and put in assettag what then?
What should I chose here??
And where is it that I can link some of the above scripts to this custom properties?? I am missing the link here I think..
So I am hoping that your smart guys can help me on this matter, maybe step by step...
Thanks for all the greats scripts that you are doing here.
#bumpsquad
You can do this more than one way too... snmp or with NCM. I just wish Cisco was more consistent. Maybe they're getting better... idk?
