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Nodes with multiple IP's best practice

Does Solarwinds have a recommended or best practice way to monitor a node (Windows server) with multiple IP's?  It could be multiple IP's on one or more physical adapters, or a single IP's on multiple physical adapters.

Thanks,
David

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  • It would be best if all IP's were located under the node view of a device.  Is this an option that is on Solarwinds radar? 

  • On the NPM roadmap, handling multiple IPs is listed. Not sure what that means.... However,
    What I do a setup all IPs in NPM. I edit the Node Name (caption) of the secondard IPs and give a dash interface name.

    I do network stuff, so some devices have active passive pairs with a virtual IP. I actually manage the interfaces in the virtual IP since is will be the active node and will show all traffic.
    The other two, I manage NO interfaces... Only the node.

    Yes, we need a better way to manage this. The main thing is TO ALERT YOU OF DUPLICATES. I've just spent hours over the past few days trying to clean out duplicates.
  • I am having a similar issue but in my case, I have over 400 nodes with 2 entries.  Not duplicates, but more than 1 IP address associated with a node, therefore 2 entries in the database.  That means more polling of CPU/Memory, HDD...etc (which I have to cleanup manually).

    It would be nice if there was a way of managing this.

    The other problem is that when I re-discover, I'll run in to the exact same problem again.  I try to keep a clean streamlined database but this last discovery has simply ruined the previous work and I am feeling unwilling to fix it again.

  • Right.  By duplicate I mean same device imported with a different IP address.

    I'm with you on a bad import causing havoc. I feel your pain.