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PRIORITIZE WMI OVER SNMP DATA DURING DISCOVERY FOR WINDOWS SERVERS

cgregors

Given the following situation:

Discovered node vendor type = windows
Node has SNMP enabled
Node has WMI enabled
Discovery profile has SNMP and WMI credentials.
Node is currently monitored via WMI

When processing the results from discovery, the SNMP results take precendence over the WMI results.

This has the following impacts

You still need to add the phantom interfaces that are discovered by SNMP to the ignore list everytime the windows server is rebooted
Discovery doesn't consider the SNMP disk volume to be the equivalent of the WMI disk volume
Scheduled tasks are not shown in the discovery results.

Interim fix

Disable SNMP on windows servers

Flaw with interim fix

SNMP is still the preferred protocol for SIM (System Insight Manager) by HP and is typically enabled on non-virtual servers.

Feature Request

If a node is windows and responds to SNMP and WMI queries, use the WMI results as the source of truth.

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Comments

njoylif

better yet, perhaps a radio button to identify user's choice

cgregors

Yes, that would be better and give more flexibility. It would also expose the underlying logic to the user and not leave them scratching their head trying to figure out why things don't work the way they expect.

Chris