Creating an Adapter Instance (Network Devices)

Before you can begin using the Management Pack, you must create an adapter instance to identify the host from which the Management Pack will retrieve data.

Prerequisites

• Installing the Management Pack (Network Devices)

Procedure

1. From the top navigation bar, select Administration. In the right panel, the Solutions view will be displayed.
2. Select Networking Devices from the Solutions list on the right.
3. Click theConfigure icon. TheManage Solutionwindow will appear.
   Note:

   Click theAdd

   

    icon above theInstanceNamelist on the left to create multiple adapter instances.

4. In the Manage Solution window, enter the following information:

   1. Instance Settings:

      • Display Name: A name for this particular instance of the Management Pack

      • Description: Optional, but it can be helpful to describe multiple instances of the Management Pack

   2. Basic Settings:

      • Management IP: A comma separated list of hostnames or IP addresses. A hostname that points to multiple ip addresses is not supported here.

      • Credential:Creating a Credential (Network Devices)

   3. Advanced Settings:

      • SNMP Port: The UDP port on which SNMP is configured on all devices (default: 161)

      • Timeout Interval: The amount of time before any SNMP request will fail (default: 10 seconds)

        Note:

        Lowering this value will improve performance at the cost of reliability

      • MIB Discovery Timeout Interval: The amount of time before the MIB Discovery Call will fail (default: 2 seconds)

      • Retries: The number of times we rety a call if a failure is encountered (default: 1)

      • IP Denylist: A comma separated list of hostnames or IP addresses. A hostname that points to multiple ip addresses is not supported here.

        Note:

        This can be used to exclude portions of a network from being discovered and collected

      • Discovery Distance: The maximum number of "hops" that devices will be discovered via CDP/LLDP (default: 2).

        Note:

        Example: If two other devices are between Device A and Device B, with this set to 2, Device B will not be discovered.

      Caution:

      Setting this too high can negatively effect performance.

      • Maximum OIDs per Request: The number of OIDs per request. Higher numbers reduce the number of calls improving efficiency while lower numbers reduce the chance of dropping the response.

      • Networking Devices Chassis Enabled: Enables the collection of the Chassis resource (Default: False).

      • Networking Devices Entity Enabled: Enables the collection of the Entity resource (Default: False).

      • Support Autodiscovery: When this is set to True, Resources that were found during collection will automatically be added to vROps. This should not be set to False.

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What to do next

To validate data collection, see: Validating Data Collection (Network Devices)