NCM puts devices in device categories. Your global collection can have devices from multiple device families. Even though the policy runs against the global collection, you need still need a separate policy for each device family.
NCM also may not be able to categorize every device in the global collection. I found this to be true either for really old devices/firmware and really new ones that CA has not yet fully developed models for. Make sure all devices in the global collection show up under a device family as well. Third, occasionally firmware upgrades change a command enough to make NCP see it differently. Something as simple an extra space could affect you. These would be fixable in your regular expressions, but sometimes are hard to see. My environment therefore my experience is all Cisco so I can't speak specifically about idiosyncrasies of other hardware you might have. From: Andrew Stein [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:27 AM To: spectrum Subject: [spectrum] Help from any NCM (Network Configuration Manager) Users I have created a global collection that contains about 11,000 Cisco devices. I have a NCM policy working that uses a regular expression to search for what I want to audit for. My problem is that I can't seem to get this policy to run against all the members of my global collection. Even when I choose the two device families that make up the 11,000 devices it not's checking every device. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Andy Stein Senior Network Systems Management Engineer DHTS -Enterprise Netowrk Systems Office (919) 681.2739 Mobile (919) 402-7627 * --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
