HP Netsight Excluded Nodes List and Discover, To Exclude a Node from the Central Node Database

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The Excluded Nodes List and Discover

The Excluded Nodes list can be used to prevent certain nodes from being re-discovered and re-added to the central node database. Nodes which have been excluded from all views are no longer polled byNetSight Element Manager or displayed in any of its views, but they won’t be discovered by the Discover application, either. If your discover scripts pick up devices you do not wish to monitor, you can simply exclude them from all views and leave them in the Excluded Nodes database indefinitely, maintaining a record of their presence on your network without the bandwidth cost of continuous polling. Nodes in the Excluded Nodes database can also be re-added to the central node database at any time, should the need arise.

For more information about the Discover application, see Chapter 3, Discovering Nodes.

To Exclude a Node from the Central Node Database

To exclude a node from the central node database (and add it to the Excluded Nodes database):

1.Open or activate any view (including a map view) which contains the nodes you wish to exclude, and click (or use shift-clickor ctrl-click) to select the appropriate node entries.

2.Select Edit —>Deletefrom the primary window menu bar. or

Select the Delete key on your keyboard.

or

Select the Delete toolbar icon. or

Click the right mouse button on any of the selected entries, and select Delete from the resulting menu.

The Node Delete window (Figure 4-15) opens, with the node(s) you have selected for deletion highlighted in the central window.

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