NetXMS Support Forum

Thanks Victor,
I've seen and applied new policies.
Netxms can be difficult at first, but i'ts worth to give it a chance.!!

Hi,
I'm trying to get all devices of my network classfied (switches, servers, but also phones, tablets, laptops, etc..), and I'd like to separate in two main categories, or profiles: The "critical" ones, which I want to be notified for any change, and the only "observed", which I only want to keep track of ip, mac address, dns name, but don't need to be notified at all.

The "crititcal" ones, have a fixed ip address, and the oberved have a dynamic ip assignment by dhcp. The dhcp is configured to keep dns name consistent.

I'd like to get advice about how to accomplish this with netxms. What options do I have?

If I'm not wrong, if I set a node in Unmanaged mode, it does not keep track of the ip changes, isn't it?

I'll manually classifiy the nodes into containers, and the critical and oberved are the 2 main containers inside "Infrastructure Services".

Thanks.

Ok, Thanks Victor.
We will try to cleanup dns and reverse database and get all clients and servers with correct configuration.

Hi,
I'm, considering to monitor some devices that are configured by dhcp. They are not critical, but are important, and would like to have a listing or inventory of all devices in the network.
Instead of doing a manual listing on a document, I think that NetXMS could be suitable, just to see if they are online, and get them classified (by type, location)

I saw that a node that changes it's IP, is detected as different object and NetXMS does not take in account the mac address. Maybe NetXMS is not adequate to monitor a network whith some dhcp devices, or I'm missing something?
Maybe applying some script on new devices to see if that mac exists, or other workarround?

Thanks.

Quote from: Filipp Sudanov on February 08, 2022, 08:10:00 PM
Approach with custom attributes is quite OK - that way scripts can be simplified.

You can also run this script on any node (and you can even make an Object Tool that would execute this scrip):
for (n: GetAllNodes())
{
  if (!n->isParent(FindObject("Infrastructure services")))
  {
    println(n->name);
  }
}

And there's a good place - Tools->Find Object. Switch to query tab there and put the following query:
type == NODE and !$node->isParent(FindObject("Infrastructure services"))

It will find all nodes that are not present under "Infrastructure services" and it's an interactive list - you can right-click nodes and do some operations with them.

Many thanks, Filipp.
Thats a very valuable information. I'll do that way too. This aproach will be useful for other tasks.

Quote from: Borgso on February 08, 2022, 09:32:38 AM
If you our out after binding new nodes that have not been put into other containers you can use this on a container you name ex "_NewNode"
It will only bind if the node is not part of any other container.
And if you use auto unbind it will unbind when its put into other container.

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for (p : $node->parents) {
  if ( (p->type == 5 or p->type == 14)
  && ( p->name != "_NewNode") ) {
    return false;
  }
}

return true;

Hi Borgso, your example helps me a lot. One of the things l want to do is to create list of nodes and where are binded.
However I've tried another solution to get new nodes: I add a custom atribute Binded = 0 on Entire Network and add a custom atribute Binded = 1 on Infrastrucutre Service (or whatever the contanier I llike.) if I make them inheritable, it will be applied to all nodes. If the node falls under Infrastructure Service, It will have the atribute = 1

So I make a dashboard with a query with this code:
if ($object->type != NODE)
return false;
return GetCustomAttribute($node, "Binded") == "0";

Don't know if this approach is correct, but I'm searching to get an inventory of my network (and also some monitoring), and would like to see list of nodes, and have the hability to filter them from various parameters (status, contanier, subcontainers,node types,localization, custom atributes, etc...)

If someone can recomend alternative aproaches, I'd like to hear. I'm new to netxms, and not sure how to aproach making an inventory.
Thanks.

Quote from: Dawid Kellerman on February 07, 2022, 10:24:16 AM

Hi don't know if it is the right way but I always just go to agent tunnels and then order them by state brings any unbound ones to the top and you can deal with them.
Where I am internet links go up and down resulting in TLS errors and stuff on my netxms alarms but it generally sort themselves It is something I keep an eye on though.

Regards Dawid

Hi, Thanks Dawid, but for the moment I'm not using agents, only snmp or status.
For the moment I'm trying a solution with custom properties. See reply to Borgso.

Hi, I'd like to know how to list nodes that are unbinded.
I'd like to list or filter them, so new discovered network devices can be bound easily to some Infrastructure Services.
Thanks.