NetMRI Advanced Settings

Job Self Approval: Allows or disables the ability of job authors to approve the jobs they create.

Job Requires User Credentials: Defines when job script execution needs command-line credentials for the devices against which the job runs.

Concurrent Jobs: This is the number of maximum concurrent device sessions per job. 20 is the default value for regular performance. For IB-4000 and VMs with at least 64Gb RAM, you can set this value up to 120. For other units, it cannot exceed the default value.

Config Syslog Change Filter Usernames: This is a comma-separated list of usernames to ignore for config file changes, reported by syslog messages.

Fully Qualified Domain Name or IP: This is the FQDN or IP to use in links instead of Management IP.

Settings related to the deduplication of devices discovered from multiple collectors.

Enable the load balancer: Turns on the load balancing feature for moving devices from highly-loaded collectors to less-loaded collectors.

Minimum capacity utilization: Sets the minimum percentage of devices, from the collector's total capacity in terms of managed devices, at which moving devices from such collectors is allowed.

Minimum capacity utilization difference: Sets the minimum difference, in percentage, in the current device's utilization by collectors, at which devices can be moved to the less loaded collector.

Timeout for choosing the collector: Sets the maximum allowable time, in hours, for choosing the best management collector for the device.

For more information, see Deduplication and Load Balancing Settings.

Several Discovery settings that affect how devices are collected in the NetMRI database.

Device Expiration in Days: Governs the "stickiness" of device records in the database.

Device Name Priority: Allows the setting of DNS or SNMP as the primary protocol for naming devices when added to the database.

Ping Sweep Frequency: Determines the elapsed time period, in hours, between ping sweeps within IP address ranges (default value 24).

Discovery Ignore Duplicate MACs: Enabling this setting forces NetMRI to delete pre-existing records for a switch identified by a specific MAC address should the device change its assigned IP. Discovery Truncate IP History prevents IPs that aren't assigned to interfaces from being assigned in NetMRI to particular devices, which preserves the functions of the Cisco ip alias command where needed.

Discovery Truncate IP History: When enabled NetMRI will no longer attempt to associate IP addresses to devices for IP addresses that aren't assigned to interfaces. This is typically found with the use of the Cisco "ip alias" command and would mean that those IP alias addresses will show up as distinct devices.

SNMPv1/SNMPv2c Discovery Version: Setting allows a choice between three options: Use SNMPv1 for credential discovery; Use SNMPv2c for credential discovery; or Use both SNMPv2c and SNMPv1 for credential discovery. For more information, see Choosing SNMP Protocol Preferences.

Discovery Status Precedence: Sets Discovery Status Precedence.

End Host Expiration Hours: The number of hours an end host must be off the network before it is removed from the database.

Poll ARP with SPM: Includes ARP tables in Switch Port Management polling schedules.

TCP Scan Technique: Sets the TCP scan technique.

Ping Timeout: Sets the ping timeout in milliseconds.

Ping Retries: Sets the number of ping retries.

MAC Address Exclusion List: A comma-delimited list of MAC addresses or OUIs to exclude from the Discovery, Neighbor, and Forwarding processes.

Syslog Discover Now Filter: Filters to exclude DHCPACK syslog messages without sysname values of 'autoconfig'.

Way to determine duplicates: Sets the way to determine whether found devices are duplicates or not using major device system variables or chassis/serial number.

Low-Rank Device Expiration Days: Sets the low-rank device expiration time in days.

SDN Engine MAX Pool Size: Sets the maximum number of SDN Engine worker processes.

Exclude Devices with Unmapped VRFs. When the setting is turned on, it excludes VRF-aware devices and related subnets from IPAM Sync in the following cases:

• The CLI credentials of the device are not guessed.
• The VRF data of the device is not collected.
• The VRF of the device is not mapped to a network view.

DIS max timeout: The maximum allowable timeout for the DIS session, in hours.

Max Discovery Processes: The maximum number of DiscoverNow processes.

NIOS User Name: Name of a Grid administrator with privileges sufficient to validate DHCP servers found by NetMRI discovery.

NIOS Password: Password of the Grid administrator account.

Syslog Facility: Controls the facility used to tag syslog notifications. For example, log audit, log alert, kernel message, mail system, and so on.

Log All CLI Sessions: Specifies whether or not to log all CLI sessions to the Device Audit Log.

Prune CLI Session Duration: Specifies the retention time to keep data in the Device CLI Audit Log, in days.

Show Advanced Categories: If this is set to false then only the standard performance dashboard categories will be displayed. If set to true then standard as well as advanced performance dashboard categories will be displayed.

Add Performance tables to the backup: Includes performance dashboard tables to the database backup.

Concurrent Running Reports: Limits the total number of simultaneous running reports on the system. The default is 2 and should be retained in most cases.

Convert Free Ports to Available: Number of days a port has to be Free before it becomes Available.

ARP Cache Refresh Period: Sets the refresh period for ARP cache (in seconds).

ARP Cache Refresh Device History: Sets the ARP cache refresh device history (in days). This enables pinging of devices from older tables compiled from previous polling days, prior to the most recently compiled End Host data tables. The default value is 14 days and the minimum value is one day. This feature helps rediscover devices that move off the managed network and eventually rejoin, such as laptops returning from travel.

ARP Cache Refresh Ignore Discovery Ranges: Ignores discovery ranges during the ARP cache refresh. This helps to optimize the discovery of end hosts by disabling pinging of such devices outside of specified discovery ranges. By default, this feature is set to False, which means that devices outside the configured discovery ranges will be pinged by NetMRI. Set this value to True if deemed necessary.

Include voice vlans in DownstreamHubOrSwitch issue analysis: Includes voice VLANs in the issue analysis.

Password Expiration: The number of days a password is valid before it expires. Using 0 in this field will cause all passwords to never expire.

Consecutive Failed Login Limit: The number of successive failed login attempts allowed for any user account before the NetMRI UI account is locked. The number of successive failed login attempts is set to zero by default. Infoblox recommends setting Consecutive Failed Login Limit to a nonzero number. Note that the user is only locked out of their NetMRI UI account but can still log in to the administrative shell with the correct password. For more information, see the description of the Lockout Duration feature below.

Lockout Duration: The number of minutes that a locked-out NetMRI UI account remains locked out before automatically becoming unlocked. The lockout duration is set to zero by default, which indicates that there is no lockout time period. Infoblox recommends setting the lockout duration to 15 minutes or more.

Password Length: The minimum password length for access to the NetMRI.

Password Numeric: Controls the requirement that a password contain at least one of both an alpha and numeric character in passwords.

Password Non-Alphanumeric: Controls the requirement that a password contain at least one special character.

Password Mixed Case: Controls the requirement that a password contain at least one upper case character and at least one lower case character.

Send audit to syslog: Sends all audit log entries to the syslog.

For more information, see Advanced User Administration Settings.

Password Banner: Controls the message displayed on the login page.

Minimum Table Size: Controls the default number of rows displayed on most NetMRI tables.

Maximum Visualization Objects: The number of objects (nodes + edges) that the Visualization will attempt to render before stopping so as to not cause memory problems with your browser.

Inactivity Timer: The amount of time in minutes for which no activity from the NetMRI UI or administrative shell results in an automatic logout of the user.

Long Running Request Timer: The amount of time in seconds before prompting the user to cancel or wait for a long-running data request.

Device Picker Offer Limit: Controls the number of matching devices offered by the Device Picker.

Hide Empty Device Groups: Hides the device groups that have no members.

Custom views are visible for creating user only: Defines if custom views are visible for creating user only.