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I agree with the right tool for the job and familiarity comments. Personally I use a combination of CLI/GUI. I find almost every GUI I have ever used overly cumbersome for repetitious tasks. It is easier for me to script, and I am horrible at scripting, a task that needs to be repeated a thousand times instead of issuing a…

I want to disagree with the "However what is missed is the fact that CLI, no matter how powerful it is, can not do network aware configuration." comment. As others have pointed out, most GUI's are implemented to hide cryptic CLI. How does a GUI differ from CLI as far as being "network aware"? Someone still has to program…

I just spent hours adding nodes to a group expecting this behavior. Very frustrated to find out it doesn't exist.

Let me know when you find that ideal world, and a world where no one is out to make money. It is not just Cisco, it is not just a GUI or a CLI, it is capitalism. There have been many ventures into the world of agnostic consistent configuration protocols/tools/utilities/etc., and they are all thwarted by money. Who is to…

@mfaisalk NETCONF is merely another protocol, similar to SNMP. Devices still need to support the protocol, it still has to interact with the operating system, and you could have both CLI's and GUI's utilizing the protocol. I would love it if there existed a tool that I could just click once and know all my configurations…

The job was failing silently because I didn't have email notifications set. We were overloading one of our additional polling engines. I moved some of the devices to a different polling engine last night, and set email notifications, and it ran successfully. However, the VLAN tables still don't match what is actually on…

What is not showing up correctly? I had an issue with quite a few Nexus devices in 11.5.2 not displaying correctly, but this ended up being a view problem. Our 56128's are Machine Type Cisco, but we get all the rest of the information from them, for example: Machine Type Cisco Description Cisco NX-OS(tm) n6000, Software…

Thank you. Manually changing the interfaces worked.

Yes, you need to make sure they are all in DNS and reachable, or in my case where some of the servers were not in DNS, I had to add host entries on the servers to make them reachable. The remote poller is very dependent on being able to reach the main server, and also the database server if they are not the same.

I have a nightly job, and I have "Bridge Table" checked. It is checked by default. I tried to run the job manually, and it appears to be failing, or more accurately not completing, which is more likely the problem. I will look into why the job is failing, and update this post. Thanks for the suggestion.

This was a view problem for us. See my post here: Cisco nexus 56128

I have a similar problem. I am trying to make sure VLANs are consistent across multiple devices. I was hoping to use NCM, but NCM is so inconsistent that I keep having to return to manual processes, or write my own scripts. I have some devices that have a complete inventory of the VLANs defined, and some don't have any. No…

Was this ever resolved? I am having the same problem with an Gigavue-HD8. I noticed that the interfaces are being detected as 10k instead of 10G, so I guess I will look into it some more.

Sorry my solution didn't work for you. From my understanding the detection is based on the SysObjectID. Is yours the same as the one I posted previously? Our 56128's are detected correctly in NPM 11.5.2, but there isn't a custom Machine Type. I agree with rschroeder that there will probably be a custom Machine Type in…

I just went through installing an additional polling engine, and was also confused by the instructions. Here are my notes: 1. Extract the zip on your remote server. 2. Run the Solarwinds-Orion-AdditionalPoller executable on your remote server. 3. The first part of the install process asks for the address of your main…