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Last post 08-28-2008 4:10 PM by mgriffin. 1 replies.
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  • 08-28-2008 3:14 PM

    Bulk delete of Stale inventory records

    I was requested to export out the Results -> Topology -> Discovery and noted that we had thousands records with a Last Timestamp of a year or older.

    Is there any way to run a CLI or add a Settings screen option to purge out those records for a certain date back.

    A concern that I've seen happening is that recently the company allowed NetMRI SNMP access to the servers. Most of the server records originally fell into Workstations w/o SNMP. NetMRI doesn't appear to update now that it should be able to poll, so I either have to delete and rediscover or manually add the SNMP string. Neither is an easy task for 600 plus devices. Being able to bulk delete old records would speed the process and allow the tool to rediscover and have more significant record entries.

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  • 08-28-2008 4:10 PM In reply to

    Re: Bulk delete of Stale inventory records

    The NetMRI should retry the community strings from the global guesser list for devices which we couldn't 'guess' the string for.

    Adding the correct community string to the global list should cause the NetMRI to guess the string for the devices in which the community string previously wasn't known, but SNMP access to the device was not disabled.

    The guessing is not nearly as aggressive as when the device is initially discovered though.

    Mike Griffin
    Netcordia TAC
    support@netcordia.com
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