Can anyone from Zenoss proper weigh in on this?  There really seems to be 
misunderstands about what auto-discover does and Zenoss' behavior is not my 
idea of how other management systems define auto-discover.

Matt


mwoodling wrote:
> 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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