If you are about to get deluged with a load of PCs that you don't want
to discover at all, a common assumption (not always correct, but
sometimes good) is that "PCs" don't support SNMP. If that holds good
for you, you could put an entry in your seedfile of:
@OID .1.3.6.1.*
This says ONLY to discover something that returns any valid OID -
non-SNMP nodes won't get discovered. If you explicitly want to prohibit
discovery of Windows PCs with a contactable SNMP agent, you could use in
the seedfile:
!@OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.311.*
This says DON'T discover SNMP-capable nodes from the Mr Gates empire
(the 311 bit).
As James and Paul have suggested, if you don't have a remit to manage
PCs - you are far better off preventing their discovery in the first place.
Cheers,
Jane
James Shanks wrote:
This node is not unmanaged. Both
75 IP Status Normal(2)
15 OVW Maps Managed 1
indicate that. When a node is unmanaged, the maps managed count will be
zero and the IP Status will be Unmanaged.
You cannot automate what you don't understand, so your first job will be to
try to create smartsets to cull out the various PC's you eventually want to
unmanage. Use ovobjprint to print the database, and then find
representative samples. Then try creating smartsets to group them based on
common characteristics, vendor, isComputer, whatever. This is likely to
be an iterative process. Rome wasn't built in ad ay and neither will you
be able to get control of an out-of-control installation in a day either.
If there was no mandate to manage the PC's, then perhaps a better approach
than trying unmanage thousands of devices you don't care about would have
been to limit discover to just those things you do care about. You can do
that in the seed file. But then you have to delete and rediscover the
entire network. serversetup gives you that option.
My 2 cents
James Shanks
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