Hello all,
I have a device that has SNMP running on two different ports. I would like to add the device to solarwinds twice so that there is an instance of each snmp to poll. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks,
Adam
What kind of device is this? Usually for me with Cisco devices I always have snmp, icmp, and netflow data reported through a loopback address on the device. Is there really more than one agent in the device? If not then there's no reason to need to have more than one instance of the device I don't believe because you should be seeing status of all the devices interfaces you have setup to be managed. After adding the devices you should be able to goto Manage Nodes from the webpage. Do a List Resources and then put a check mark next to any interface you would like to have monitored. If there are two seperate snmp agents that can have different IP's to poll then you should be able to add them both as different Nodes.
Thanks for your reply! So in essence you are saying that if two different snmp agents are running then you must have two different IP addresses to both of them? You cannot add the same device twice, using different snmp ports, with the same IP? Thanks.
I said if there were two different agents. From my experience you usually monitor all of a devices interfaces through one IP address (on routers/switches best practice many times is through a loopback address because the interface is always up as long as the device is reachable). From this one IP the agent's MIB is polled with snmp for information about the entire device and all it's interfaces. Orion also checks status of devices through icmp pings. You are correct that NPM currently doesn't allow more that one device be polled through one IP (on different ports). If you could provide more information about your device and what you are trying to accomplish I'm sure everyone can help you figure out what your options are.
