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    Suresh Viswanathan
    Suresh ViswanathanNew Participant

    Feedback/Thought - False Positive Alerting _ Overall Health MonitorOpen

    Hi – Looks like PC/Unsupported devices are marked as Device/Interface Down in the health monitor. SNMP failed is a false positive statement.Yet possibly we can have an alternate Warning Message stating “SNMP not supported for this device type”Note: Please comment for enhancement request only if this is productive 😊 pfa images. Thanks. !

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    Suresh Viswanathan
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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Please make the output of Tune Live Access exportable!Open

    In order to understand which devices are properly onboarded to NetBrain (via either SSH access, API access or other means that guarantee full visibility for a device in NetBrain) and which aren’t, one way to check is by using Domain Management => Operations => Advanced Tools => Tune Live Access.However, all the benefits of this tool/functionality are negated by the fact that the output is not exportable to e.g. a CSV file.Can you please address this gap or suggest other ways to check which devices are fully onboarded to NetBrain and which aren't (i.e. visible via SNMP polls only or ping only but not SSH/API access)?

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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Inconsistent selection of endpoints for path trace when One-IP table contains historical records for the same IPOn Roadmap

    Per NB DEV team, if there’s more than 1 entry for a given IP, the old one will be considered first as it was inserted into the DB first…Which doesn’t make sense because the most recent record from One-IP table should be used for every endpoint.Can the above mentioned behavior be changed somehow?

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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Possibility to continue path trace with only user mode access to deviceUnder Consideration

    Our SD-WAN will be managed by a third-party, and our NetBrain instance won’t have privileged access to any SD-WAN device (no matter edge router or controller, via SSH or API).As more and more SD-WAN routers are being deployed in our environment, cross-country path traces start failing in NetBrain. In a year or so a big part of this very useful NetBrain functionality will be gone for us.The 3rd party MSP agreed to grant us only user-mode SSH access to SD-WAN routers, meaning we’ll be able to login and do pings/traceroutes off those routers.Would it be possible to create a solution (patch / plugin / QApp etc.) whereby if a path trace hits a device with a specific naming convention (or other defined parameters), NetBrain would switch to using traceroute command to continue path trace on that device, and once it’s able to get past those devices, switch back to normal mode of tracing?

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    SeanDSmith37Frequent Participant

    Add in a "Maintenance" mode for devicesOpen

    If we decom a switch or router and delete from netbrain we lose all the cached configuration from that system.    I would be nice to be able to put the device in maintenance mode and remove it from the domain but still cache the configuration and legacy data in an archive.    It is rare we need to go back and look at a previous configuration, but it does occur.    

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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    Improve Fine Tune -> DiscoveryOpen

    When you want to rediscover devices from Fine Tune, either from Missed Devices or from Unknown SNMP SysObjectID, the IP addresses of the selected devices are automatically transferred to the Discovery page and entered into the IP Range field. Unfortunately, the selected scan method is not correct. Instead of Scan IP Range it is set to Discover via Seed Routers. And we definitely want to scan the selected IPs, nothing else.

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    zhaoxu
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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    Redistribute Devices Evenly Among Front ServersUnder Consideration

    Hi all,is there a mechanism to redistribute devices evenly among front servers or do I have to do it manually using Shared Device Settings and Device Groups? I have a new FS added to my farm and find myself doing the redistribution manually, trying to find a filter in Device Groups that makes sense.If there is a mechanism, please share. If not, please accept this as an idea.

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    brett.koger
    brett.koger

    Pull Inventory Report Data via APIOn Roadmap

    We use inventory reports to gather data on our network and would like some of our other tools to use that data as well for management dashboards.  It would be great to get this data via inventory reports.

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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Batch CLI functionality limitation in v10 vs v8Available

    In v8 we were able to remove multiple commands at once using Ctrl-click, and do it for multiple devices simultaneously.In v10 we can only remove the commands one by one, and need to repeat it for every device in the list.Can we please go back (or have an option to switch) to v8 functionality when it comes to executing batch CLI commands?

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    weicai
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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    Overall Health Monitor - UXOpen

    When using the Overall Health Monitor, the map is not as important to me as the table with the Interface Data. The problem is that with every new poll, the table is being reset and the view switches to Device Data. I then have to switch the table and scroll down to the line where I was at. With a polling intervall of 30 seconds that is a lot of switching and scrolling.I wish the new poll would only populate the table with current values and not reset the table view.Thank you.

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    Richard.Dunn
    Richard.DunnInspiring

    Document how to delete devicesUnder Consideration

    I asked the question and got a great answer already, but can you add that answer on how to delete devices from NetBrain in your online help?  I think it’s pretty well written, but I can’t keep coming back here to remember how to delete devices!Thanks,Richard

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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    Automatic API Code GenerationUnder Consideration

    A lot of functionality in NetBrain can be handled using Python or cURL code. To make handling the code easier it would be great if NB could generate the code for a function for the user to work on.Exampleslog in, set tenant and domain of the currently used credentials for any map, provide the code to export the map as Visio for a discovery, recreate this discovery as Python codeThis is similar to the code provided already to use a certain API stub.

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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    Get Device NeighborsAvailable

    When using the Get Device Neighbors by Topology Type API I can request L2 or L3 neighbours from a device. The L3 result looks the same in format just providing L3 neighbours instead of L2, naturally.For L2, I get a result that looks like this{'neighbors': [{'hostname': 'R4', 'interface': 'Ethernet0/1 123.10.1.1/30'},.....What you will immediately realize is that it is a simple JSON list giving neighbouring hostname and its interface.What you will not get is the interface on the queried switch to which the neighbours are connected. This L2 information would be very usefull and even for L3 it would be interesting if the local L3 interface were provided.

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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    NB License InformationOpen

    In Fine Tune, there is a section called Devices Exceeding License (0), below that are Foundation (0) and WAP (0). What is missing here are the exceeded licenses for ACI.I know I can find that information under the Current Domain but this should be added in this section as well.

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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    Improve Vendor ListingOpen

    In Multi-Vendor Support, Vendor Model, when you add a new SysObjectID, please sort the list of vendors alphabetically without differentiating between upper case and lower case letters. In this list, APC comes before Acgate and CXR Telecom comes before Cisco.Capital letters (upper case) are generally considered to be identical to their corresponding lower case letters for the purposes of alphabetical ordering, as in this case.I also found the vendors Allen-Bradely and Allen-Bradley in this list, surely one of them is a typo.

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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    Support for Cisco VDCOpen

    Usually, when discovering devices you use the mgmt IP which is fine for most devices. Cisco Nexus support VDC and when you discover via the mgmt IP, you only get the admin context but not the important stuff from the productive contexts.Adding the command show running-config vdc-all will provide the missing information.Of course, this information will also require analysis and interpretation, adding IPs, routing etc.

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    mil.kulNew Participant

    granular access rights to Public filesOn Roadmap

    Hello, is there any way available in NetBrain how to define some granular access rights to Public file folders?I’d like to give some users write access to some folders while others would be able only to read.Something like standard Unix file system, e.g.So far I understand a user needs to get the Domain Management privilege to be able to modify any Public file/folder.But then he is authorized to modify ANY public file/folder.This is not flexible enough.Possibly something like Device Access Policy would be available, at least? Thanks,Milan 

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    Carsten.SchmidtBrainy

    Front Server RedundancyOn Roadmap

    I would like to see front server redundancy in case one server has connectivity or life issues, maintenance etc. Idea: start with a (semi)-intelligent assignment of devices to FS by calculating a priority based on values like latency or features (tags) like region, SNMP info (e.g. contact), NB tags, FS overload, line of business. All available FS matching certain criteria will be added to the device according to their priority. Latency will give you the best connectivity and tags let you select specific FS to prevent all devices being assigned to one FS. If one FS is not able to reach the device, the next FS will take over. A daily task could be created to re-evaluate priorities and assignments.

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    Orkhan GasimovNew Participant

    Folders in Device GroupsAvailable

    Right now Device Groups have a flat hierarchy whereby one can’t easily navigate the groups once they are over a limit of scrolling (~50).With a foldered structure it would be much more neat and understandable.

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    brett.koger
    brett.koger

    Site Subnet InformationOpen

    Does anyone know how to make an inventory report or a qapp for each site map to show each sites subnet information?

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    Christian.Perauer
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    mil.kulNew Participant

    TACACS role/DAP assignmentOpen

    Hello, I’m searching for a way to overcome the “Map user role from TACACS+ to NetBrain” restriction:I’d expect a function like:“If the TACACS server is sending attributes Role=X;Y;Z and attribute DAP=A;B:C, assign the user to roles X, Y and Z and to DAPs A,B and C”.But there seems to be only one attribute/value pair accepted by NetBrain.So when I need a user to get assigned to multiple roles or device access policies, I need to create a new TACACS AV pair and entry in the NetBrain map.And to create a separate AV pair and map entry for each role/DAP combination.Which is annoying.Has anybody found a better way? Thanks,Milan

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    Lindsay LiKnown Participant

    Want to start change task from Inventory ReportOn Roadmap

    We are using Inventory report to help us find the devices that have some violation with our compliance. After finding those devices, we want to do change on them immediately to make our network work in the way we want. But we didn’t find a way to import those devices from inventory report to Change Management Node or Change Management Template.  It could tremendously save our time if we could import problematic devices into CM task from inventory report or Qapp directly.

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    Lindsay LiKnown Participant

    Need ability to import Dynamic Search criteria for site definitions via csv or jsonUnder Consideration

    We have a large number of sites, more than 500. I didn’t find a way on GUI where I can import Dynamic Search criteria for all my sites. Need a solution to bulk import search criteria for sites in large network; manually define each site is not acceptable.

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    Lindsay LiKnown Participant

    want to share inventory report via linkOn Roadmap

    We used inventory report quite much to share network information within the team and with other teams. But right now we can only export those reports and share them manually. One issue with this process is that, people cannot get up-to-dated reports. When receiving a report from others, we cannot make sure if this is the latest one. So people have to export reports regularly to get the latest information. If we can share a report with link which can automatically refresh, that would be super helpful for collaboration.

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    Lindsay LiKnown Participant

    L2 topology calculation for firewall peer is not correctOn Roadmap

    our Firewall peer-A and firewall peer-B are using the same cluster group# for redundancy, hence the same MAC. In order to address the miscalculation in L2 topology, NetBrain should not only look at the MAC table, but also do routing table and ARP table correlation.

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