Hi,
When using IDP on a DMS with n elements capacity left.
What if I discover p elements where p > n ?
I can still discover the p elements , but I will be able to provision only n elements.
Does it seems right ?
Is there a max value for p ?
IDP currently supports IPv4 discovery and provisioning and will release in next release support for IPv6. In terms of numbers, we are not limited in the size of the scan range, however, scanning the whole IPv6 network might not be advised ;).
Whenever you reach the maximum number of elements created on the DataMiner, you won't be able to create elements anymore and you will receive the same message as with manually creating elements.
There are also some settings that you might want to consider. You can find the below settings on IDP > Admin > Discovery > Settings:
- Timeout of a single command
- number of retries
- request maximum duration
- Identify unknown devices
- Identify all matching CI Types
- DNS Lookup
1) That’s correct. Just one remark on ‘all matching items’. This is configurable, one could also choose to return a discovered result even if there’s no matching CI Type. This can be done on IDP > Inventory > Discovered > *enable* Identify Unknown Devices . Of course, you won’t be able to create those ‘Unknown’ discoveries, however, they can come in handy to find out what information you received on that IP address and port.
2) In terms of visualization, it will depend on how much rows DataMiner Cube can handle when opening the page. Do note that we also have two settings to prevent endless growing tables, i.e. time-based and count-based.
Adding to this, and correct my if I’m wrong Jarno, but to Alexis his point:
1) with IDP you can execute your desired discovery scans, it will list all the matching items that it has discovered (and this can be more than the capacity in DataMiner to manage all of them), and it would be then up to the user to decide which discovered items are converted into managed elements in DataMiner (the latter being limited obviously to whatever the capacity of the DataMiner System is).
2) currently there is no set limit for how many discovered items IDP can list and display, and this can probably be quite a high number without getting performance issues (because this is just a list of discovered items)? So I would presume that this can easily handle many thousands if not tens of thousands of items?