Device Templates Questions

kavana33

Quick Description:	Device Discovery with Custom Device Monitors via Device Templates (OID)
Which Product?:	NPM, SAM
Question:	Is there a way to specify only specific named interfaces, Disk volumes, and Services to be monitored during the discovery of the device via device template?
Value:	We would like to streamline the discovery process so SolarWinds will automatically select and monitor specific items as it is defined in the templates.

During the discovery of a device we noticed that it will select all active disk volumes and interfaces, we would like to setup templates for Linux server's to only monitor disk volumes with "/", and "/var", and on switches we would like to only monitor interfaces on a specific device model interfaces that contain the name "XE"

mesverrum

On the section of the discovery where you set up the automatic import you can filter interfaces by all kinds of things, its extremely filterable.  On the other hand, disk volumes don't give you anything to filter against against volumetype, which is fixed disk for almost everything on a linux host, so its not really helpful.  What some people have done is to set up scripts in the API or SQL jobs to just automatically ignore from discoveries and delete any volumes that match whatever criteria they need. 

This thread discusses one way to do it:

Re: Automatically ignore volume/interface types that are discovered via Network Sonar Discovery