Router interface (dscy_router_interface) CI creation during Discovery
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
‎02-08-2019 06:54 AM
Hello,
I wonder where and when Router interface (dscy_router_interface) CIs are created during Discovery run.
Looking at the creation time they are created just after "Identity" Probe (we are still on Probes/Sensors) comes back with the result payload and I before any Exploration Probes start. Part of the "Identity" MultiProbes (Windows - Identity, Linux - Identity etc) is the "Network" Probe (Windows -Network, Linux - network and so on).
I tried to find something in the script responding to the "Network" Probe, the post-processing script of the Probe itself and got lost in DiscoveryJSONIDSensor ScriptInclude... (my javascript understanding is a mostly 'intuitive').
Would be grateful for any hints where to find that creation as I want to disable it if possible.
Thank you in advance,
Marek
- Labels:
-
Discovery

- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
‎02-08-2019 08:30 AM
Hi - network router, switches, are being discovered via SNMP. Perhaps you don't want/need SNMP enabled? If so, you can either disable the probes or, if you are on Kingston (or later) use the Discovery Configuration Console to disable scanning network devices.
Does this help?
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
‎02-11-2019 03:41 AM
Hi Dave,
Thanks for your prompt reply but unfortunately this does not resolve my problem.
Sorry, I missed to include that information in the original query but we are not discovering network at all. The dscy_router_interface (and at least two other classes: dscy_route_next_hop and dscy_route_interface (not _router_) are created as a "bonus" during server discovery with WMI/SSH.
I was able to get rid of the other two by modifying the 'Windows - Network' and 'Linux/AIX/... - Network) Probes by removing the route-related WMI fields/part of the ifconfig command. But the router interfaces are still getting created.
It looks they (and maybe the two I disabled) are needed for L2 or L3 connections creation but as we do not discover network devices these connections will not be created anyway.
Btw: I would leave them be if it was my decision to make but CMDB owners wants them gone... On the other hand if I knew where the router interfaces are created code-wise I could argue that modifying that code is a good idea.
Many thanks in advance!