Is there any way to get Cirrus to update the OS version of a node (or multiple) without having to go into each individual node and validating SNMP Credentials? That seems to be the only way I can get it to update the "OS Version."
Turning on node monitoring should achieve the same affect. You can turn off node monitoring afterwards if you are concerned with ongoing system impact.
Shouldn't this be something Cirrus is updating w/out Node Monitoring?
Currently, the node monitoring feature does both status polling and system discovery. You're right though, we need to eventually separate these or better yet allow Inventory Jobs to update system information (so you can control update frequency). Let me know your thoughts on your preference. We've got a feature request we're tracking right now for this purpose (for internal folks, this is #1645).
I would agree with your statement above and "allow" the Inventory to update the system information. Right now I believe we perform a complete inventory on a weekly basis. As it stands right now, we do not use Node monitoring so if we do a large code update, Cirrus doesn't update that with the inventory.
Any ETA on when this would be updated?
I have node monitoring truned on and it still isn't updating any of the information. The only way I can get it to do so is to open each individual node and "Validate the SNMP Credentials"
Any thoughts / advice would be great...
How long did you leave Node Monitoring turned on for? By default, Node Monitoring will poll status every 2 minutes and perform node rediscovery every 60 minutes. You can change this setting by going to File > Settings > Node Monitoring.
I haven't turned it off. It's currently set to poll the nodes up/down status and rediscover every node every 8 hours. The Discovered Properties (System Description, OS Image and OS Version are the ones I'm concerned with) are still not auto-updating and I still need to "Validate SNMP Credentials" to get the info to update.
