Ghost Volumes Re Added after Network Discovery

On a daily basis I run the below query to find any volumes with issues and delete them. I've noticed that they same volumes end up coming up, even after deletion. This is due in part by a daily network discovery but I can't seem to exclude them for it.

How can i remove these ghosted volumes permanently?

SELECT [dbo].[Volumes].nodeid, node.caption as nodename, [dbo].[Volumes].caption as volumename

FROM [dbo].[Volumes]

join [dbo].[nodes] node on [dbo].[Volumes].nodeid = node.nodeid

where VolumeIndex = 0

group by [dbo].[Volumes].nodeid, node.caption, [dbo].[Volumes].caption

order by nodename

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mesverrum

There is an older thread about how to add things to the discovery ignore lists that may be useful for you. I haven't used this technique in a while so I don't know if the sql may need updating but it worked pretty well in the past.

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

rgnetmon

What's strange is that they don't show up in the "Scheduled Discovery Results." I definitely search all results. The servers with the ghosted volumes are all being polled by the agent.

mesverrum

Maybe if the agent is part of an autodiscovery it doesn't check the filters or the ignore list? I have never ran an agent auto discovery where I didn't intend for it to just add everything.

rgnetmon

I've confirmed this isn't just happening with agents, it's also happening with other forms of polling.