Hey everyone!
I have a potentially loaded question but I feel like I cannot be the only person whose been in these shoes.
I've been tasked with taking over my Solarwinds environment that when I inherited was not built out pretty much at all. Right now I'm trying to find ways to speed up the process because we have well over 300 sites and over 10000 or so objects that need eyes on them. This includes Physical Servers, Virtual Servers, iDracs, Switches, Firewalls. So far I have the group hierarchy of:
Site
- Access Points
- Dynamic Query based on node name (were pretty good at keeping objects named correctly so I haven't decided to base it on anything else)
- Firewall
- Dynamic Query for whatever is the .1 on the subnet
- Physical Servers
- Dynamic Query: isServer == TRUE and IP Address begins with Subnet
- Dynamic Query for iDRAC: Machine Type == DRAC
- Switches
- Dynamic Query same as access point one except for switches
- Virtual Servers (If Applicable)
- Dynamic Query (still working on this one, very mixed environment virtually)
Basically the problem with this idea is that its going to be VERY TEDIOUS to build out 4+ sub folders in each root folder (over 250) for these devices and I would rather work smarter not harder for something like this. Now I know you can probably script a solution and I'm not a stranger to PowerShell or scripting in general but I want to know how to get started without reinventing the wheel. Any ideas and criticisms would be very much appreciated!
Thank you!
