Importing Nodes - Monitor Resources

breener96

I just imported about 200 new nodes and 1800+ interfaces into my environment after doing a discovery.  NPM already had 2000+ nodes and near 4000 interfaces before the import.  The discovered nodes that were just added do not seem to monitoring the local volumes, the CPU/Mem, nor the Virt/Phy Memory for my windows servers. 

I really do not want to have to go through all nodes individually to figure out which nodes are monitoring and which are not being monitored.  Is there an easy way to just select all windows server nodes and have them monitor local volumes, the CPU/Mem, and the Virt/Phy Memory?

Also, I know that many nodes were duplicates and so they were not added.  I would like to have a list of all the new nodes and interfaces that it imported.  Is there a log or something that I can look at, or maybe I can write a query if the node/interface has a date timestamp of when it was first added to be monitored.

If anyone has answers to these, it will be greatly appreciated and will save me a ton of time... especically since this is something that I am going to regularly... a discovery of my network every month.

bleearg13

I just imported about 200 new nodes and 1800+ interfaces into my environment after doing a discovery.  NPM already had 2000+ nodes and near 4000 interfaces before the import.  The discovered nodes that were just added do not seem to monitoring the local volumes, the CPU/Mem, nor the Virt/Phy Memory for my windows servers. I really do not want to have to go through all nodes individually to figure out which nodes are monitoring and which are not being monitored.  Is there an easy way to just select all windows server nodes and have them monitor local volumes, the CPU/Mem, and the Virt/Phy Memory?

I'm pretty sure that the Node Discovery doesn't import volumes, but I could be wrong.  I've heard mumblings about this feature being included in future versions, but only SW would be able to comment on that.  Unfortunately, I think you're going to have to go through and add them all by hand.  Discovery is a painful process that needs a lot of work and doesn't always find everything or import everything, so after using it once, I ended up just importing everything one-by-one.

Also, I know that many nodes were duplicates and so they were not added.  I would like to have a list of all the new nodes and interfaces that it imported.  Is there a log or something that I can look at, or maybe I can write a query if the node/interface has a date timestamp of when it was first added to be monitored.

I would say that you can use the Events tab in the web console for this.  Just filter on "Node Added" and it shows you everything that was added in a given time period.  You can do the same for interfaces, too.