Technical Blog Post
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Using Collectors to Enrich a Network Discovery With 'Undiscoverable' Data (incl. full example collector)
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Collectors aren't just about EMS support - they can also be a convenient way to enhance traditional SNMP discoveries too.
In this Network Manager Wiki reference article I demonstrate how you could write a simple topology enhancing Collector for use in scenarios where topology data gathered via device or EMS interrogation is unavailable or incomplete. For example we could be talking about a traditional ping/SNMP discovery which contains some types of devices for which topology data is unavailable via SNMP, or even a Collector/EMS based discovery where the EMS can't provide all necessary topology data.
See Using Collectors to Enrich a Network Discovery With 'Undiscoverable' Data.
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