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Pre provisioning large amount of nodes into Solarwinds NPM & NCM

hattster55 over 11 years ago

Hi,

I was hoping somebody could help advise me on adding a large number of switches to Orion even before they are added to the network. So basically I am involved in a project which is deploying over 2000 switches throughout the area at about 1100 different locations. It is planned to have 20 switches brought online a day for 55 days straight and obviously I do not have the time to manually add each switch as it comes online. I would like to pre add all of these switches into Orion, and to appear up as soon as they are reachable. The only way I have found to add a large amount of switches at once is with Network Discovery but this will only add the switch once it has been discovered and I do not want to have to go into the discovery and add the switches as they are discovered. I would like to have all these switches added into Orion and the IPs monitored and just shown as down until they are reachable. Additionally I would like all these switches added into NCM, to allow me to grab a configuration from them, once they come online.

Thank you for your time and any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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d09h over 11 years ago +1

Just added approx. 500 to NPM about a month ago doing the following: added each IP address as a loopback address on a layer 3 switch. SolarWinds was able to ping the devices. Added a host file with…

0 d09h over 11 years ago

Just added approx. 500 to NPM about a month ago doing the following: added each IP address as a loopback address on a layer 3 switch. SolarWinds was able to ping the devices. Added a host file with the IPs and hostnames on SolarWinds server. Created a discovery and added the devices successfully (since IPs were pingable by virtue of being interfaces on my switch).
I created a custom property to assign to these nodes and created a group status report telling me what percent responding. Also a report for which responded/ which did not.
Not sure what you would have to do for NCM.
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0 hattster55 over 11 years ago in reply to d09h

Hey!
Thanks for the great reply that sounds like an excellent work around but unfortunately I looked into doing this and it won't work on my network because we already have all the routing setup and adding a bunch of loopback addresses may cause issues with production traffic, if I try to reroute traffic.
I was hoping Solarwinds NPM would have a way to allow me to do this.
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0 d09h over 11 years ago in reply to hattster55

Cisco's passive interface feature may be useful to avoid routing issues if you were to go with this approach.
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