Populating Model ID Information via Patterns

[Shantanu1]

Hi Experts!

Need your assistance 🙂 

I have created a custom pattern for the Nasuni Appliances, which are discovered via SNMP Credentials & the records are populated in the Storage Server Class. I am using the SNMP Classifier and the custom pattern is triggered via the same.

I have added the steps in the pattern to populate the Model ID & Manufacturer information to the CI record, but for some reason the manufacturer info is there on the CI  record but not the Model ID. I am avoiding to hard set the information in the OID Classification as the values are dynamic and can change. Please assist 🙂

Thanks,

Shantanu

[doug_schulze · Accepted solution]

Are you doing a lookup against the man/mod table and inserting the sysID?  I talk about that here..

[Shantanu1]

Thanks for your response Doug! That was really helpful!, I was missing to step to look up the value and was passing info in strings to a reference field!

[Emil J_ Heigren]

Hi Shantanu 

I am interested in your solution for discovering Nasuni Appliances.

Would you be willing to share the pattern? 

[Shantanu1]

Hi Emil, 

Firstly I apologize for my delay in responding. The solution I implemented was creating a custom pattern mostly build around utilizing the MIB file provided by Nasuni. I populated the CI records in the "Storage Server" Class, again we can change the class as per business requirements

Below are the steps I followed

1).Creating an SNMP v3 credential for the Nasuni Appliances.

2). Loading the MIB File on the table ecc_agent_mib.list

3). Creating an SNMP OID Classification, as per the OID response in the output payload of a discovery scan. (Model & manufacturer is optional, we can update reference fields via the pattern using pre-post processing script. Creating new SNMP Classification ("discovery_classy_snmp" table) to trigger the custom pattern.

4).Creating custom pattern, the pattern works on querying the Nasuni MIB and populating the information.

Steps for name : 

operation SNMP query, query the SNMP OID for name in a variable, then set the variable as a parameter value for name.

similar process for serial number, model, manufacturer. etc.

Please let me know if the solution works and can provide more assistance.

Thanks,

Shantanu