Device Interfaces you wish to not import in the future

Hi Ken,

I am afraid it is not possible for interfaces right now. You can create your ignore list for nodes only. Anyway we plan some kind of interface filtering for future release.

Thanks,

Pavel

The unwanted interfaces can be added to the ignore list after discovery, but this quickly becomes impractical as your number of access ports and VLANs increase.

There is no way at this time to filter what interfaces are discovered.

The approach I've taken is to unselect all ports when importing a node and then go back to each individual switch and add just those ports that I'm interested in.  I don't bother with the ignore list anymore.  This does mean that every morning all my switches still show up as changed nodes because there are interfaces found that are neither monitored nor ignored.

Yeah. Solarwinds NPM is a great product but needs better tools for dealing with a constant changing network. Because we are a carrier ISP, we are adding switches all the time.

It could be years though, before this feature gets implemented. I'm surprised it hasn't been implemented yet since interfaces are the most basic thing to monitor.