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Rediscovery Device (When Required) Other Device Control Tasks
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AlliedView NMS Administration Guide (Controlling and Provisioning Network Devices)
5.9.8 Rediscovery Device (When Required)
This option picks up any changes made to the selected device. This action is most commonly done in the following scenar-
ios:
• The user has updated the user/password in the Managed Objects properties form and wishes to activate the changes.
• A login to a device fails, an alarm is generated, and the user updates the login-password in the manager properties form.
The user then clicks on Rediscover Device to retry the device discovery with the newly entered userid/password. If the
discovery succeeds the alarm is cleared.
• Cards on the device have been re configured. A manual rediscovery is necessary to ensure alarms/conditions are cor-
rectly reported (i.e. correct card or port).
Note: If the user does not do a manual rediscovery, the 24-hour rediscovery will be performed and will pick up
the changes.
Caution: When changes to a device configuration are made directly on the device (using the CLI) rather
than using the NMS, the NMS data will be out of sync with the device, and must be put back in
sync by either the 24-hour audit or manual rediscovery.
Caution: The name for a device should not include an ‘&’ or Rediscovery will fail.
5.9.9 Managed Object Properties
To view the Object Properties of a either a Rapier or iMAP device, right click on the device and select Managed Object
Properties. The Managed Object Properties Form appears.
5.9.10 Manage/Unmanage
To toggle between having the AlliedView NMS monitor the device choose UnManage (or if the device is not being man-
aged, Manage). This will repoll the device and updated all related information.
5.9.11 Update Status
To poll the device and update the status of the managed object, select Operations -> Update Status. Device status is normally
polled automatically by the NMS at the poll interval set in each device's Managed Object Properties. The Update Status
operation lets the user initiate a status poll outside the normal interval. Status is determined according to the Tester property
of each device’s Managed Object Properties. Valid values for Tester are:
• Ping - The device is polled merely by pinging it with ICMP.
• Snmpping - A more detailed poll is made using snmp.
• Max - The device’s status is rolled-up from the current status of all its components in the database, however they were
determined (which themselves may have been ping, snmpping, or max), without actually going to the device. Thus with
max, a router’s status would be the maximum status of all its interfaces.