Coming from the retail environment, we have lots of remote sites with the exact same setup. Wether it's routers, switches, access-points, we use the same configuration, in the same type and model, in each sites. It would be nice, for the network discovery, to use a template based on the type/model of device, so they all get discovered and start being monitored the same way. Keep the conditionnal monitoring of, say, interfaces based on some parameters, like the description of switch ports, so you can exclude ports that are described for users 9ex.: "USER PORT", and that you don't necessarily want to monitor.
Also, if we could conditionnaly create a group for those devices, based on their names, their network address. Say I'm scanning a /12 network, with each store using a /22 inside. Then, each /22 would be a group, and the name of the group could be a regular expression of the name of the router/gateway of that /22.
It could even fill in IPAM, with the gathered information. So not to wait for another discovery to do the job. It's already discovering the network.
It's open to other ideas of stuff to fill in, I'm pretty sure.
I hope it's clear enough.
Thanks,
Martin
