Automating Selection of Interfaces Enabled for Monitoring

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Automating Selection of Interfaces Enabled for Monitoring

By default, Nectus does not monitor any Interfaces and you must select which interfaces you want to be monitored.

You can select Interfaces manually by adding it to one of the Interface monitoring groups or you can build auto-population rules

that will automatically select Interfaces based on predefined rules. Rules will be executed once a day (at 2:00AM)

Step 1: Login to the Nectus portal and go to Monitoring -> Network Monitoring Settings -> SNMP Interfaces Monitoring Settings option.

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Step 2: Go to the SNMP Interfaces Monitoring Groups tab and click on the Auto Population Rules under the Default Monitoring Group.

Step 3: Click on the Rule to add a new auto-population rule. Once a day, interfaces that conform to the defined rules

will be added to the corresponding monitoring group.

You can add individual rules or you can create group of rules with AND/OR logic.

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How to Manually Add Device Classification for Unknown Devices

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How to Manually Add Device Classification for Unknown Devices

Step 1:

Nectus maintains internal device classification database where each device is assigned a major platform category and a device model name.

Classification is associated with device SNMP Platform OID: (.1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0)

Classification database is updated daily and support for new devices included in every Nectus update. But in some rare cases Nectus might not have classification info for specific device and this device will appear under “Unknow Category” in SNMP device tree.

Nectus GUI allows customer to manually add Unknown device classification information directly into Nectus server database.

Right-click on SNMP Platform ID value and select “Add Product Definition for x.x.x.x.x.x.x” from the SNMP Devices context menu.

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Step 2: As the product definition modal opens, provide the sub-category (product) name, and select a category from the drop-down menu. If there is no applicable category name in the drop-down menu, you can define a new category name.

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