Hmmm. I don't use autodiscovery, so I can't say specifically. I expect 
that you could run an autodiscovery periodically via a cron job + cli 
commands. Searching the forums will find examples of the syntax. As to 
autoclassifying devices, that I'm not sure you can do. You might well 
need to do some coding + zenDMD stuff to get it to work, if it's even 
possible.

I expect if you were an Enterprise customer, you could get quotes or 
assistance in having Zenoss inc do the modifications for you (and if you 
were nice, you'd let them release it as a zenpack for the community or 
in the core edition).
--
James Pulver
Information Technology Area Supervisor
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University



mwoodling wrote, On 12/15/2008 12:37 PM:
> I have been using 2.2.3 running on CentOS 5.1 for a few months and have 
> discovered a bunch of Cisco and Windows devices.  
> 
> Fine. 
> 
> Now, I still don't really understand what auto-discover really means in 
> Zenoss-land.  I think what it means is that any device that Zenoss is told to 
> discover (by adding the devices or selecting a subnet and clicking "Discover 
> devices") is queried by Zendisc and and other appropriate processes which 
> then model interfaces, CPU, disk systems, etc.  The zAutoDiscover property of 
> a subnet doesn't really seem to do much.  All of my subnets have this 
> property set to True and devices do not get discovered.
> 
> Here's how I think auto-discovery should work (basically, this is the HP 
> Network Node Manager discovery model):
> 
> Any subnet that has zAutoDiscover set to True should be periodically scanned 
> for live IPs and, at my option, be modeled by Zenoss.  Ideally, I would like 
> Zenoss to only add devices that have a particular SNMP config (correct 
> community names in SNMP v1, for example) and Zenoss should completely ignore 
> all other devices.  I would also like Zenoss to be configured to limit what 
> IP ranges can be discovered at all.  Ideally, devices would be automatically 
> placed in appropriate classes based on the format of their device name.  The 
> nice thing about this approach is that, if I control the SNMP configuration 
> of devices, discovery and classification is completely hands-off.
> 
> Am I missing something?  Can Zenoss do what I want (Core, Enterprise, Service 
> Provider)?
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
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