On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Erich Oliphant wrote:
> Hi,
> First I want to say the the setup claim of 1 hour is just wrong. I got it up and running, mgmt
> box plus 5 servers in a little over 30 minutes 🙂
Sorry about the false advertising 😉
> I am curious about the autodiscovery feature. It's very good about finding all the services and > processes on the box monitored by the agent. However, I don't see any options for network
> discovery (switches, routers, etc). The only option based on my reading seems to be adding > them manually. Is it possible to have an agent walk the network, looking for network devices, > computers, etc to monitor them at the NIC or SNMP level ?
Network Device platforms are added manually, but their services (such as Network Interfaces) will be auto-discovered. We don't currently have built-in support for auto-discovery of the devices themselves. However, you could use a scripting language of your choice to scan the network and generate an import file like so:
<!-- netdevices.xml -->
<hq>
<platform name="My Router"
type="Network Device"
fqdn="myrouter.hyperic.com">
<!-- ip address of the router -->
<ip address="10.0.0.1"/>
<!-- ip address of the HQ agent that will monitor the router -->
<agentconn address="10.0.0.21"/>
<!-- snmp configuration for the router -->
<resourceConfig snmpCommunity="public"
snmpIp="10.0.0.1"
snmpVersion="v2c" />
</platform>
</hq>