Topology Discovery Seperated from Node Discovery

Question

Right now it seems necessary to run some form of Node Discovery in order to update topology data.  I would like to see an option to just run a Topology Discovery against selected systems already in Orion.  If there is a way to do this, please let me know.

Thanks!

charlesdf22 · Answer

It would be nice to have this much like how i've seen it implemented in Spectrum.  You have the option to just right click a device and it discovers everything connected to it.  this also works with the alerts that it generates as well.

I'm not terribly keen on the current discovery in that you need to specifically have both sides of all l2/ l3 links in order for accurate discoveries to work.  We ended up with 16 copies of some of our core routers added due to this.

MarieB · Answer

Hello-

Thanks to you both for your feedback. I have marked this for the PM to review.

M

mezdem · Answer

Yes I have a discovery running regularly just to update the topology - I take a list of current IPs from an inventory report each month, then update the discovery profile (which if you dont alter the settings correctly it flipping deletes the discovery profile after 35 days or so!!!- very very very annoying) then I have to dismiss the message each time for the interface changes...!!!

Just have it update the topology a different way please...