We have several elements created before we installed IDP. Now that we have it installed, we need to assign the CI Type to each element.
We don't want to re-discover the same elements with IDP because we would lose the trending.
Is there any way that this process can be automated with a Script/API?
Hi Jesus,
In IDP, elements that were not provisioned by IDP are called unmanaged elements. If you go to Inventory -> Unmanaged, you should see the list of unmanaged element listed in a table. You have the option to set the CI type of these unmanaged elements and set them as managed elements.
Hope it helps.
Hi Jesus,
With the unmanaged elements, IDP tries to figure out the best CI Type for a given element but since at that point it is no longer trying to make a discovery it will use just some basic information.
You could however select from the dropdown any of the options IDP deemed as potential CI Types.
Thank you Miguel!
We tried that option, but sometimes it assigns a different CI Type, because we could have 2 CI Types with the same OIDs (or almost the same) with the difference of the community in the discovery profile, and it could match a wrong CI Type for the existing element.
Is there anyway to avoid that? We can try adding more “rules” to the discovery, but maybe there is a way to do it with a Automation Script.