I guess it depends on whether your switch has multiple IP-addressable
interfaces. Most switches tend to just have 1 IP address for management
info / loading. If this is the case, that's the only interface NetView
will show you - you need Switch Analyzer to manage down at the port
level. Therefore your question about unmanaging extra interfaces is
simple - there won't be any.
If you do have multiple interfaces on your box, by default they will all
be managed. However, you could use the nvmaputil utility to unmanage
particuler interfaces (look at the 7.1.4 docs or the Release notes for
7.1.3 for info on nvmaputil). The tricky bit here is how to specify the
interfaces you want unmanaged in an automatic way - I guess you would
need to craft some sort of lookup table for the relevant devices, with
primary address and interface(s)-to-unmanage information and then build
a script that runs nvmaputil to do the unmanaging.
Anyone else??
Cheers,
Jane
Christopher J Petrina wrote:
OK itneresting conundrum for everyone.
What would it take and is it possible to do the following?
I have a switch I wish to load from a seedfile into netview. This
devices has multiple interfaces on it. I load the device using the
uplink interface's IP address. Once it is loaded via that IP address
it will be demand pulled to pull all other relevant information from
the device. Such as other interfaces, sysname, etc.
NOW -> I want the uplink to be managed but all other interfaces on the
device I want to be unmanaged when it is discovered. Can this be done
automatically? Or perhaps through a script written that will go in
and unmaange the ports(interfaces) I do not care about on the device.
Can you unmanage a range of ports given specific information from the
CLI?
Thanks for your brain work
Chris Petrina
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