Raritan Computer COMMANDCENTER NOC - Manual (Page 27)

C HAPTER 2: GENERAL AND ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION 15
Important! Ensure your discovery range is not too wide, for example, entering
multiple Class B address ranges. This consumes large amounts of resources
and may reduce the performance of CC-NOC. Also, it is recommended to keep
the default “Automatically license and manage new devices discovered via
the ranges and addresses listed below” checked. This avoids devices being
discovered more than once.
5. Click Enable DHCP IP address… for DHCP nodes that support Server Message Block
(SMB), the communications protocol used by Windows-based operating systems to support
sharing of resources across a network, to discover systems. This protocol tracks the nodes by
hostname so if their IP addresses change, it will not generate false outages.
Note: Excludes take priority over Includes. Therefore, if you have an Included range inside an
Excluded Range, the Included range will not be read as included (as you have already excluded
it). To avoid this problem, limit Excluded ranges - example: You have one Server that has an IP
address within a subnet you are not managing. Instead of excluding the whole range and
including that one IP address, build two (2) Exclude lists - one up to that address, and another
starting with the address immediately preceding and going to the end of that range
Example
You can, however, exclude specific IP addresses within an Included range - say for a specific
Server you do not want managed. For example, you include this range of IP addresses:
192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.255. Within that range, you can specify one IP address we do not want
managed (192.168.0.210). You also included a specific IP outside of the range we specified
(192.168.5.100) to manage. This is a good setup. Where you might run into trouble is if you
excluded a range of IPs that covered the specific IP we listed (say excluding 192.168.5.10 to
192.168.5.150), since the CC-NOC will exclude that range before it includes the specific address
you want to manage.
Edit SNMP Ranges
This page allows you to modify your initial configuration settings (see Raritan’s CommandCenter
NOC Deployment Guide) allowing you to change the mapping of the SNMP community string to
the nodes, that is, specific addresses or address ranges for which it should be used.
The CC-NOC uses the SNMP protocol to collect performance information from devices that
support this protocol, and provides an easy way to view performance graphs of particular devices
on the network.
SNMP implements a security mechanism it calls Community Strings, which are similar to
passwords. The CC-NOC requires the Get Community String, often called the Read-only
Community, to access the SNMP performance metrics. As community strings are configurable on
a per device basis, the number of community strings you may need to enter will vary with the
environment. Many organizations use one community string enterprise-wide, and others maintain
them on a per-device or group of devices basis.
The community strings for any device from which you wish to collect performance information is
required. Review your community definitions below and add, edit or remove community
definitions as needed.
1. Click on the Admin
tab in the top navigation bar.
2. Click Network Management Configuration.