Bulk add SNMPv3 nodes in NetFlow analyzer

red888

I have about 150 Cisco routers.

I plan to push out the same SNMPv3 config (authentication and encryption) to all the routers with the same credentials.

I added one router to the NetFlow analyzer manually with my SNMPv3 config and it works great. Now how can I iterate through a list of IPs of all 49 routers and script/automate adding them with the following settings (which will be the same for each router):

SNMP Version: SNMPv3

SNMPv3 Username: mysnmpv3user

SNMPv3 Authentication: SHA1, Password <my password>

SNMPv3 Privacy / Encryption: AES256, Password <my password>

Collect Statistics Every: 7 minutes

Poll for Topology Data Every: 5 minutes

Does Solar Winds have a script-able API I can access to accomplish this?

HolyGuacamole

go to settings, define a new network discovery and use the 'Specific IPs' option to list out the 49 IPs you want to monitor. Once the discovery results are ready, you can use the interface filtering options to add in just the interfaces of interest.

once the interfaces are managed by NPM, you just need to setup the routers to point to the netflow collector. NTA should automatically associate them to the corresponding interfaces.