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Monitoring Nodes With Dynamic IPS

We use Solarwinds to monitor many of the Public Library Branch Equipment in addition to our server environment. I have struggled with an effective way to monitor these devices as they have Dynamic IPs and are constantly being taken off the network for repair.

I run a Network Discovery to find any new equipment every day. The discovery finds the nodes and assigns a static IP.

In order to modify the nodes, I am running a TSQL Update on the database after the Network Discovery jobs complete. Fortunately the nodes that I want to make Dynamic have a standard naming convention.

UPDATE SolarwindsOrionDatabase.dbo.NodesData

SET DNS = SysName,

     DynamicIP = 1

WHERE (

     SysName LIKE '%PUB%'

  OR SysName LIKE '%REF%'

  OR SysName LIKE '%CIR%'

  OR SysName LIKE '%SMM%'

  OR SysName LIKE '%SCO%'

  OR SysName LIKE '%CAT%'

  OR SysName LIKE '%DED%'

  OR SysName LIKE '%SHR%'

  OR SysName LIKE '%PRT%'

  );