This is just an example and very blunt, but it should de-select any visible checkbox on that discovery page:
I've only tested this with Chrome and Firefox, but follow these steps:
1) Create a new bookmark in the browser
2) Name it "Deselect" or something
3) For the location, enter the following:
http://www.jspaste.com/?id=340 (this forum plays safe and filters javascript, so copy from there).
It should look like this in Chrome
:
4) Save the bookmark and navigate to the discovery page
5) You might have to expand the interface/volume list, but once you see the list of selected objects just select your 'Deselect' bookmark and it should deselect everything.
Its just a proof of concept and like I said very blunt, but if you know JavaScript you could expand it to perhaps filter the names and such. If you wanted to select everything, change the checked=false at the end of the line to checked=true.
Hopefully give you an idea anyway, and save your fingers 🙂
If you wanted, you could also edit the local HTML page and write your own button into the HTML source and use jQuery to do more funky stuff - but that would definitely not be supported by SolarWinds and would be something you'd have to keep track of through upgrades etc. Then again in the next version it might be available, and use the bookmark thing in the meantime.
I'm a little confused where on the UI you're trying to do this. Can you explain more?
When you "List Resources" for a node you have the option of selecting All, None, All Active Interfaces, All Volumes, All Interfaces:
Although it doesn't look like it, the green tick and text are buttons you can click.
In your situation I think I'd select "None", then select the interfaces needed, then any other volumes or CPU/Memory options etc.
Here is a further clarification that really shows the massive nature of this problem for me. This is a small excerpt of about 10 devices from our network discovery. On each of these access switches there is a very small number of ports that I care about. The rest of them I would prefer to be ignored from future discoveries so that they don't clutter my screen when looking for interfaces and devices I truly care about (There are about 500 switches in the environment)
As you can see I have to go into each one and click several hundred times to ignore all of the interfaces I don't care about in order to prevent them from showing up from future discoveries. Truth be told if there was even some selective filtering that could be done it would be helpful because our uplinks are always named.
This is just an example and very blunt, but it should de-select any visible checkbox on that discovery page:
I've only tested this with Chrome and Firefox, but follow these steps:
1) Create a new bookmark in the browser
2) Name it "Deselect" or something
3) For the location, enter the following:
http://www.jspaste.com/?id=340 (this forum plays safe and filters javascript, so copy from there).
It should look like this in Chrome
:
4) Save the bookmark and navigate to the discovery page
5) You might have to expand the interface/volume list, but once you see the list of selected objects just select your 'Deselect' bookmark and it should deselect everything.
Its just a proof of concept and like I said very blunt, but if you know JavaScript you could expand it to perhaps filter the names and such. If you wanted to select everything, change the checked=false at the end of the line to checked=true.
Hopefully give you an idea anyway, and save your fingers 🙂
If you wanted, you could also edit the local HTML page and write your own button into the HTML source and use jQuery to do more funky stuff - but that would definitely not be supported by SolarWinds and would be something you'd have to keep track of through upgrades etc. Then again in the next version it might be available, and use the bookmark thing in the meantime.
Great thanks!
Last question....unfortunately when you look at the discovery results you see not only the new elements but the elements you have already imported...any way to get it to match only the new?
Here is a short excerpt...I would like to try and avoid accidentally checking any existing boxes and only select those labeled as new with the scripting.
Ah the page actually does some other stuff on the physical click.
This uses the jQuery library to emulate the click.
http://www.jspaste.com/?id=341
Use that on the bookmark instead of the other big one. First time you run it, it will select all NEW objects (properly), and if you run it again it will deselect.
That is absolutely awesome...just ignored about 400 interfaces on 5 nodes in 6 clicks (one each to expand and one to ignore). I checked the discovery ignore list to assure only these devices were ignored and we are good.
Someone send that man a Solarwinds T-Shirt 
Andy my sincere thanks.....as to the Solarwinds developers hopefully this can be done within your system in a future release as I'm sure a javascript workaround is less than ideal for most users but I am completely content with doing it.
