use Watchlists for unknowns

[RobertWengewicz]

I am not sure if it is possible or even would be useful to anyone else. I have a crap load of unknowns in envision and a list of Linux, Unix and AIX servers that are in that unknown list. I was wondering if you could make a watchlist so that when you are in Manage Monitored Devices you can click the say Linux - Unknowns Watchlist and then modify them, make them Active and change them all you Linux boxes. This would handling unknowns alot easier ... I think. Unless someone else may have an idea on what is a easier way to change known Unknowns to the device type that they are. Thanks Bob

[RSAAdmin]

Not sure I'm speaking about the same thing as you, but you can set your filter in Manage Monitored Devices to "NIC Properties / Device Type" IN Unknown. Then put a check box next to every unknown device next to all the systems that you want to alter (e.g. all the systems you want to be RedHat Linux'). Then select 'Modify' at the bottom and you'll successfully modify all the systems simultaneously. I've found this to be very helpful with Cisco Router and Switches, as they will frequently not get typed correctly on the first pass. So I can select 20 or 30 'Unknown' devices at once. Makes management a lot easier. Hope what I wrote relates to what you were inquring about.

[RobertWengewicz]

that way would be easy if you only got 20-30 unknowns in but I am getting 100's of them at a time. I currently have 1300 unknowns in my system because enVision can't pick out Linux, from Aix, from Solaris.

[RSAAdmin]

Hi,

If we manually change the unknown devices to a known one something like the Unix Flavoured devices(AIX,Solaris, Linux), the concept of auto discovery fails and new devices coming in will be unknown as well.

What i have done is, in our environment we were having 900 Unix flavoured devices, I made a common device XML named "Unix_Flavours.xml" and copying all the XML Messages from AIX,Solaris, Linux XMLs and removed the Unix AIX, Unix Solaris and Linux device XMLs.

Now all the Devices are getting discovered as Unix_Flavours which are reportable.

Note: You should be knowing UDS Programming to do this. This is not the proper way but the best option possible with RSA enVision

if you have any questions please let me know.

Thanks

Premnath