How do add new devices to my discovery without re-discovering ?

[Banderas]

i have an existing network of which i have run the autotopology process to discover my network.The network was discovered and was correctly represented.i have now recently added two new devices of which i would like to add to all relevant folders.Can i run autotopology for just these two new devices without having to rediscover the existing network ? if yes how ? and if not is there another method ?

 

[NMSman]

You could use autotopology with a seed of a single subnet range to add the 2 new devices. for example seed 10.10.10.10 is your router on that subnet, then discover the range 10.10.10.0 to 10.10.11.0 - That should only run discovery on the 10.10.10.0 subnet.. hope that makes sense.

 

[Banderas]

Thanks but is there a way to do it without using autotopology ?
I know that using device creation and the link creation method one can manually add a device, but can i manually add these devices without using these methods.(for example can it be generated upon installlation of the router)

 

[welshboy]

I would ensure that if your device is unsupported in ONMS then I would add the vendor address using addvendorid.bat from dos prompt. Once ONMS has added this to it's dbase you can use the following to add an object with autotopology:

You can manually add a device by selecting File, New Object, fill in the necessary details for the device. Once you apply and ok it, you'll then need to find it. Do this by clicking File, New, Find Object View. Enter IP address and lick ok. It will display the device in a new window, you can cut and copy this into your desired window.

I know this works as we have old Cabletron Hubs with IP management that I've added to ONMS.

Hope this helps.

 

[NMSman]

Guys,
There is a command line option in NMS 10.1 which allows discovery of a single device or devices.

Here u go....

dislink -i xx.yy.zz.aa

will device device xx.yy.zz.aa and any links originating from the device.

disdevice -i xx.yy.zz.aa

just descovers the device and puts in the correct subnet - no links

dislink -r xx.yy.zz.aa

this doscovers a deivce , all links and resursively finds any devices at the end of those links ...

good luck

 

[NARBE]

Hello,

On NMS 10.1 you have a new command to discover devices or links;

Dos command: disdevice -i <ipAddress>
and dislink [[-i]|[-r]| <ipAddress> (-r =Specifies recursive mode, which creates all links for the device at ipAddress and then runs dislink recursively for each endpoint)