Change 'Machine Type'?

I have started to monitor a Linux server using NET-SNMP. I want to be able to change the 'Machine Type' from NET-SNMP to something like 'Linux Server' so I can group all Linux machines together.

How can this be done?

Thanks.

Pete.

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pshankland

Sorry to 'bump' this one but does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.

Network_Guru

Hi Pete, welcome to the forums.

You cannot change a discovered property such as this, but you can create a new custom property which can be used to group your Linux servers.
There is an application called Custom Property Editor [CPE].

You can do a search in these forums for more info on how to do this.

-=Cheers=-
NG

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cschneide

I would love to know who to set this value... I'm want to set Machine TYpe System Name and Location (on the devices) but can't find any Document on how this information is changed or where it comes from. Can anyone shed some light? I'm using linux on the machines I would like to change.

Diner

Hi cschneide: Your desired information are MIB values returned by your SNMP agent (on monitored device). These information are get when discovering the device and must be set correctly on the device, so the SNMP agent can return correct values.

RichardLetts

You have to submit a support ticket to SolarWinds -- there is a long-running thread on the board titled something like 'Tell us your unknown devices' which is pretty much ignored by SolarWinds (sorry to seem negative, but the thread has been running for many years for what should be a simple lookup table pre-populated with sysObjectID to vendor, vendorIcon, and machinetype.)

Unfortunately if you go ahead an update the MachineType in the nodes table then when the periodic rediscovery gets run it will reset the value.

If you tell your Linux systems to return your own Vendor sysObjectID SWO will flag it as an 'unknown' device. If we had the table then you could put your own sysObjectID to Machinetype in there and it would all work out.

cschneide

I have it all set not but I have tried quite a few ways to set the OID for the Machine Type but it seems to not be there... It seem to simply grab the "net-SNMP - linux" and not one forum post give a good answer to how to change this.