Hi,
We monitor a number of PDU strips which have the ability to be polled for their current power usage.
Now the current issue with NPM is that you either have nodes, volumnes or interfaces as object. This is normally fine however when you want to add attributes to an object you have to use custom properties.
So If you have a variety of different objects like- router,switches, pdu stips, door controllers, bms devices etc you may end up with a large number of custom properties most of which would be inappropriate for most except one type of object.
Hypothetically if my PDU strip has 10 power outlets, i may want to add custom properties P1-10 and then populate it with the name of the device connected. So if the PDU circuit breaker trips and it drops power to all the devices SW can be set to send an alert and with information about all the servers that are at risk/down(in the case of dual power supplies)
Then to bring up an old request, you may want to add an object to SW that is not monitored at all. For example a server rack. Why would I want to do this. Well lets say you could add in a rack/comms room, that had attributes such as location, access type, contact number, user capacity etc. You would then be able to create a new device view for a rack/comms room that would show the details that you wanted.
Regards
Miron