zenoss created a patch to do exactly what you want there is a 
commandline argument --snmp-strict-discovery which I assume you can put 
into the config

# As root, su to the zenoss user.
# run ‘zenpatch 10914’
# run ‘zenmigrate’
# run ‘zenoss restart’
#

That should do it. After this, you should have a new zProperty at 
Networks on the zProperties tab. The new property is 
‘zSnmpStrictDiscovery’ and can be set to True or False. By default, it 
is False. When set to true, discovered ip’s will not create devices 
unless snmp info can be retrieved. In conjunction with the 
zSnmpCommunities property on Devices, this should filter on community 
like 2.1. Please give me a shout if you have any problems or if these 
instructions are unclear/inaccurate.

hope this helps,
Pete


mwoodling wrote:
> 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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