Auto-discovery job for addresses instead of subnets

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osbormd
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Auto-discovery job for addresses instead of subnets

Post by osbormd »

Is there a way to add an auto-discovery job in Nagios XI for network devices by IP address?

I want them to be auto-discovered nightly in case new interfaces and other resources are enabled.

For scan target, I tried two IP addresses separated by a comma as well as two /32 subnets separated by a comma.

Neither appeared to work.

Thank you!
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lmiltchev
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Re: Auto-discovery job for addresses instead of subnets

Post by lmiltchev »

You cannot search for individual IPs or ranges, separated by coma. You can only search for a single IP or netmask. However, you can exclude comma-separated list of IPs from the search.
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osbormd
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Re: Auto-discovery job for addresses instead of subnets

Post by osbormd »

Thank you. If I have thousands of devices across hundreds of subnets, should I set up a auto-discovery job for each device?

This sounds like a lot of overhead on the server to have a job for each device.

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Re: Auto-discovery job for addresses instead of subnets

Post by tmcdonald »

Auto-discovery uses nmap on the backend so our wizard has to conform to their standards in terms of input and command-line flags.
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