SolarWinds NPM/NCM doesn't allow a person to globally change the "Enable CLI polling" credential for multiple devices or device types.
Equally as bad: There's no way to apply this polling setting and its credentials to all nodes of one type. One must manually enter in the credentials separately for each device that will use them.
Please let us select the CLI name and password from a drop-down and apply it to a group, instead of forcing us to do this on a per-node basis, one-node-at-a-time. And let us enable CLI Polling for groups of ASA's, Nexus devices, and ACI logins.
There are multiple areas in which this should be accomplished:
- Individually--just as it is now when editing a Node. Click the box to Enable CLI polling for that individual node, but let the name and password be selected from a drop down, just like it is done for setting snmp credentials to monitor the node.
- By group:
- Admin > Node Management > Manage Nodes
- Group by machine type or vendor, etc.
- Select all the nodes in a group
- Check the box to Enable CLI polling
- Select the CLI login name and password from a dropdown. The password need not be visible--it should be tied to the CLI login name.
- Apply it to all of the selected Nodes
- Admin > Node Management > Manage Nodes
- Use logic to filter nodes by defined criteria and automatically apply the CLI credentials to them all via a dropdown for name and password. An example of this might be if you included "CFW" in the names of all your Cisco Firewalls. You'd use the logic to select "Node Name (or system name, or caption) contains 'CFW'" and apply CLI login credentials to all of those devices.
This should also apply to ACI login credentials:
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