Ok, so I see the Connect It tool and it looks good. BUT, and there is always a but, there is a major drawback to it coupled with discovery.
1- Connect it only works on a sonar discovered list, making all the manually added devices in a network useless for layer 2 Connect It.
2- Dicovery via Network Sonar has a MAJOR problem. It only discovers by what ever address responds first. If you are like many network administrators, you have followed the recomendation of vendors like Cisco and have your devices set to poll by a loopback address. The advantage of this is that as long as there is any path to the device, the loopback address will respond. Where as polling by the first address that is found leads to polling by an interface address which may go down and show the device down, yet it is still up and reachable by other interfaces.
Rediscovery is not an option if you are pollingby loopback address. Network discovery will find the device by the first address that answers and will add the device again creating a duplicate entry. It does this because it matches existing devices by IP addresses and not the DNS name.
So my questions are why doesn't layer 2 discovery kick in when I do an individual rediscovery from a devices managment/edit page? Why can't a filter be added to discovery to allow it to discover by a type of managment interface? Why can't discovery match via IP OR DNS name? Why can't existing devices do a rediscovery and then have layer 2 information?
Any one!!!!! Any one!!!!
