Supported SNMP devices
BMC Discovery supports the following classes of SNMP devices:
- Network devices
- Printers
- SNMP managed devices
You can view the details of supported SNMP devices in your IT environment from the Administration UI, Discovery section, SNMP devices option. The BMC Discovery content reference (formerly Configipedia) topic
Supported SNMP devices
provides up-to-date lists of supported devices of each class.
For information on how you can discover unsupported devices, see the following video (04:58).
Monthly TKU releases might increase the SNMP device coverage.
Note
If you need BMC Discovery to support a new SNMP device, you should first try to create a recognition rule for it. For more information, see Recognizing SNMP devices. You can also use the Device Capture capability to download a zipped MIB that you can forward to BMC Customer Support as part of a new support issue. BMC Discovery engineering will aim to incorporate support for the new device as a new feature in future TKU releases. You are recommended to raise the case reporting the unsupported SNMP device, including the zipped MIB, as early as possible to maximize the chances of its inclusion in the earliest release possible.
BMC provides only integration support for SNMP-enabled devices that are either network printers or core networking infrastructures such as switches, routers, firewalls, and load balancers. Other device classes, such as UPS devices, should be discovered through the use of recognition rules.
To view the SNMP devices supported by BMC Discovery
- From the main menu, click the Administration icon.
The Administration page opens. - In the Discovery section, click SNMP Devices.
On the SNMP Devices page, supported devices are organized in the following categories:- Vendor
- Capability
- Kind
Select a category to view the list of SNMP devices in that category.
The following information is shown for each SNMP device:
Field Name | Details |
|---|---|
Model | The name of the SNMP device. |
Kind | The kind of SNMP device. This might be Network Device for switches, routers, firewalls, and so on. For printers, the kind is Printer. |
Capabilities | The capabilities, or purpose of the SNMP device; for example, Router, Switch, Layer 3 Switch, UPS, or Blade System. |
sysObjectID | The SNMP sysObjectID. |
Status | Whether the exact SNMP device has been tested by BMC. This can be either:
|
Notes | Any additional useful notes on the device. |
- Click a device to display a list of all of the methods that BMC Discovery might use to obtain data from a device, and the Object Identifiers accessed.
Where an OID contains a table, a plus (+) icon is displayed. - Click the plus icon to reveal the table. Click the minus (-) icon to collapse the table as illustrated in the following screen.
Not all devices support all methods.
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