Monitoring the same IP multiple times [ref: CheckPoint VSX's]

stuartd

I just this morning discovered SNMP Contexts. When adding a node I'd always seen them there but never paid much attention to them as we've never utilised them. But in investigating why our PRTG setup could monitor the [virtual] device and find its associated interfaces I found that whomever did the PRTG side had subtly amended the SNMP Creds section and the only difference was the use of the SNMP context.

So off I trot to our SolarWinds instance and was able to add and monitor the relevant interfaces of a virtual context on one of our VSXs by adding the context ID to the SNMP Context box - in our case: vsid1.

However, the caveat was that we had to use a different polling engine as it is the same IP as the parent box.

So my questions are:

1. Is there a limit to the number of contexts one can add being equal to the same number of APE's available? IOW, if I have a VSX with 2 contexts I'd need 3 different  APEs  to monitor them or can the secondary APE also monitor other vsids with a different name / number?

2. If we are restricted to "Number of APE's = Number of Contexts" then is there any other way to monitor multiple instances that use the same IP?

stuartd

Answering my own question - as ever. The trouble is, once I get something in my head I have to keep digging. So with this query, I kept adding until I couldn't. The result is: Number of duplicate IPs = The number of APE's you have.

In other words: if you have 4 APE's, you can add 4 devices using the same IP.

IF YOU NEED THIS, THEN PLEASE GO VOTE ON THIS: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/the-orion-platform/i/feature-requests/monitor-multiple-devices-at-the-same-ip-address