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Subnet scan dumps System Names

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AndrewW posted on Fri, Apr 24 2009 1:57 PM
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I succesfully imported a spreadsheet with one /24 subnet (worked well).  System names were visible.  A few minutes later, they were gone. 

To test, I imported another subnet, again system names populated, and again they vanished. 

I imported the second subnet again, it repopulated the system names and they remained. I had disabled automatic scanning for this second subnet. 

After kicking off a manual scan for the second subnet, the system names are missing. 

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Answered (Verified) Peter.Cooper replied on Fri, Apr 24 2009 2:09 PM
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Andrew,

In v1.0 of IPAM, the scanning engine wants to own the sys* settings (sysName, sysDescr, etc). If we're not getting values back from the devices, they go blank. We can turn that off, but it'll turn off scanning for each individual IP.

A better way is to create a custom field (from IPAM Settings) and when doing your import, set the column name to the custom field.

Peter Cooper, Principal Developer : Ottawa, Canada

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Answered (Verified) Peter.Cooper replied on Fri, Apr 24 2009 2:09 PM
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Andrew,

In v1.0 of IPAM, the scanning engine wants to own the sys* settings (sysName, sysDescr, etc). If we're not getting values back from the devices, they go blank. We can turn that off, but it'll turn off scanning for each individual IP.

A better way is to create a custom field (from IPAM Settings) and when doing your import, set the column name to the custom field.

Peter Cooper, Principal Developer : Ottawa, Canada


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AndrewW replied on Fri, Apr 24 2009 2:19 PM
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Thanks Peter.

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