Network Sonar - Assign name with IP's entered?

waussery

Hey, I'm a noob with some questions.

If you're given a set of IP addresses and want to assign them specific names (say you want to monitor interfaces separately as ICMP-only nodes, and don't want to resolve the hostnames from the router), is there a way to do that in bulk?  Or do you have to go down the list and hit Add Node one by one?

Or is there perhaps a better way of going about this?  I'm separately polling circuits as nodes so I can have a handy node tree in my Summary view.

mavturner

waussery,

Unfortunately you cannot simply import the IP with desired hostnames. A work around (that I haven't tested) is to update your hosts file on the Orion server with the IP and Name that you would like to see. Then use the list of IPs in the Specific Node section of Network Discovery to quickly add them all. 

Alternatively, you could add the nodes, then use the Custom Property editor and add a customer property that makes sense to group these by, add another All Nodes resource to the summary page, and group by that Custom Property. This method is much safer and better than directly updating the database.

Mav