Turn off collection of port data for SNMP network devices

In some environments you may not want to collect the port data for SNMP network devices.

Before you begin

Role required: admin

About this task

If the network devices contain an extremely large number of ports and each individual port's information is not critical to the overall management of the devices, you may not want to collect the port data for SNMP network devices. This would affect records from being created in the Switchports table (dscy_switchport). This process only impacts probe discovery.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Discovery Definition > Probes.
2. Go to the SNMP - Switching probe.
3. In the SNMP Fields tab, find the field named ports, double-click the value in the Active column, and change the value to false.
   The collection and processing of ports information for switches is then disabled. The ports field for the switch CI should have the correct ports count even though the related list switchports is empty.
4. Click the check mark to save the change.