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Network Discovery Switch Interface Issue

A few weeks ago my team went through a switch interface clean up and got rid of unnecessary ones that were being monitored. This week there was someone that did a network discovery and there were a number of switches that were included in that discovery, when they imported them into Solarwinds the selected all active interfaces to be monitored. The issue at hand is that what was being monitored after the clean up is unknown.

This now comes down to not knowing what was being monitored for the interfaces. If this were two or ten switches that would be no problem however there is a few hundred. Is there anyway to somehow roll this back to what was being monitored? If not any ideas to identify what was being monitored? 

In hope this makes sense for what the issue is.

I would appreciate any feedback.

Thank you in advance. 

  • You could potentially script it with something like the following (edit the select query in the script).

    https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK/blob/master/Samples/PowerShell/Interface.Cleanup.ps1

    Each interface is given a sequential InterfaceID in the database. The new interfaces will have the highest interface ID numbers. You could look at the Interfaces table to try to identify the ID where the new interfaces start, or look at the Audit / Events log in Message Center to find the first interface that got added recently and use that ID as a start. Then use the script to get the URIs of all the interfaces with a higher ID #.

    The only other way to "roll back" would be to restore a database backup from before it happened but you would lose all the collected data and any changes made between now and the time of the backup.