Viewing and Changing General Settings for a Device
- Viktoryia Varapayeva (Deactivated)
After a device is discovered by NetMRI, its detected Name, Device Type (Switch, Router, Switch-Router, etc...), or its management IP address can be edited by hand in this section. Doing so will remove the device from auto-discovery. To re-enable auto-discovery for that device, go to the Network Explorer > Discovery page and delete the device from the table. NetMRI will then re-discover the device after its defined time period between Discovery passes elapses.
The Device Viewer provides a General Settings page (Device Viewer > Settings & Status > General Settings) in which you can perform the following:
Enable/disable SNMP data gathering for the device.
Under SNMP Status, select Enabled to enable SNMP collection for the current device, and select Disabled to disable SNMP collection.Enable SNMP debugging as a troubleshooting aid.
Under SNMP Debug, select Enabled to enable SNMP debugging for the device. For more information, see the Collecting Troubleshooting Data topic.Enable SDN debugging as a troubleshooting aid.
Under SDNÂ Debug, select Enabled to enable SDN debugging for the device. For more information, see the Collecting Troubleshooting Data topic.Override the device Name and Type determined automatically by the appliance. This triggers rediscovery. For more information, see Overriding Device Names and Types in the Device Viewer.
Override the config change setting specified in the Device Group to define config collection for the device as Locked or Unlocked.
Set the Reboot Time, in YYYY-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format, for devices up longer than 497 days.
The General Settings page can be accessed only by users with the Admin role.
The Device Group Membership section lists the device groups of which the device is a member.
The Device Group Settings section lists the settings for the highest-ranking device group that includes the device as a member, and a number of scanning and discovery-related statuses specific to the device, including the following:
SNMP Collection: Whether SNMP collection is enabled or disabled.
Port Scanning:Â Whether TCP/UDP port scanning is enabled or disabled.
Finger Printing:Â Whether fingerprinting is enabled or disabled.
NetBIOS Scanning:Â Whether NetBIOS Name scanning is enabled or disabled.
ARP Cache Refresh:Â Whether ARP cache refresh is enabled or disabled.
Config Collection:Â Whether configuration file collection is enabled or disabled.
CCS Collection:Â Whether CCS scripting data collection is enabled or disabled.
Vendor Default Collection:Â Whether vendor default SNMP credentials collection is enabled or disabled.
Analysis:Â Whether the device allows analysis functions from NetMRI.
Config Change:Â Whether configuration file editing is enabled or disabled.
Switch Port Mgmt:Â Whether Switch Port Manager is enabled or disabled for the device.
Privileged Polling:Â Whether CLI polling in privileged exec (enable) mode is enabled or disabled for the device.
In all cases, a state of N/A indicates either the device has not been fully discovered and cannot currently support the feature, or the feature does not apply to the device.
You can define individual devices' SNMP and CLI credentials. For more information, see Adding and Testing SNMP Credentials for a Device and Adding and Testing CLI Credentials for a Device.