Qustion about getting the information from devices or nodes

Question

Hi all, I would like to ask that can orion NPM do the following task.

The ports of the devices may responsible for different purposes, let say, I have 50 devices in the network.
For each device, port1 to port4 are for purpose1, port5 to port8 are for purpose2, port9 to port12 are for purpose3, and so on.

Could I group the information by purpose?
I mean could I have a page to view all information related to a single purpose for further investigation based on the observation, let say all port1 to port4 information of 50 devices in the above example.
It seems that the demo in existing webpage will only collect the information of each device inside the network, could it be observe in a more detail way, or I should say could it divide the device into pieces to obtain the detail information of each small piece?

Thank you very much.

terance · Answer

First of all, thank you very much.

Since I just start to study the software, and do not have enought resource including an environment using windows server 2003/2008.
However I was asked to check whether it can do the above task.
I read through the webpage, the document for OrionQuickStartGuide.pdf and part of the OrionAdministratorGuide.pdf.
I still cannot find any idea about the possibility to do the task I mention above.

That's why I ask for help here and I believe some of you will have experience on that.

Really thank you for sharing your experience, once I have the opportunity to have a trial on that, I will try your procedure.
Thanks.

If someone also have experience on that, hope you would not mind sharing your valuable experience to me, thank you.
Thanks a lot.

MeFisTofeLes · Answer

Have you tried this?:

- adding a "Purpose" interface custom property  and then make a new "Summary View"

- Add info on that new field to your interfaces

- Then apply a View Limitation, based on that custom property 'purpose' ...