Applicable to Entuity v19.0 upwards. If you are using an earlier version of Entuity, please see this article.
Available network device types
To edit the device type of a device
Entuity uses device type to identify the type of information that should be collected from a managed object, and then how that object and its information should be presented in Entuity. For example, the type of information collected for a load balancer has significant differences to that collected for a VM platform, although there will be some attributes that are common to both.
Asset categories:
The top level of asset management hierarchy is based on the asset category. Entuity v19.0 and upwards supports the following asset categories, which have their own asset types:
- Custom Device:
- A custom device represents a device that Entuity is not managing, but you want to represent within Entuity. It is a placeholder device with no IP address, on which no polling takes place, and therefore has the Admin Down status on maps etc. However, you can use User Defined REST Polling to conduct polling on custom devices.
- A custom device represents a device that Entuity is not managing, but you want to represent within Entuity. It is a placeholder device with no IP address, on which no polling takes place, and therefore has the Admin Down status on maps etc. However, you can use User Defined REST Polling to conduct polling on custom devices.
- Network Device:
- see below for supported network device types.
- see below for supported network device types.
- SD Controller:
- Cisco APIC
- Cisco DNA Center
- Cisco Meraki
- vManage
- Wireless Controller
- Server Device:
- Dell PowerEdge/VxRail
- HP Proliant
- OpenManage
- OS Only
- Storage Device:
- Dell EMC VNX
- Nimble
- DataDomain
- Dell EMC VNXe/Unity
- VM Platform:
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Oracle VM Manager
- HyperV
- VMware vCenter or ESXi
Available network device types:
The available network device types are as follows:
| Device Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Auto | available when adding a device. This instructs ENA to associate an appropriate device type to the device, using its vendor database. |
| Autonomous WAP | enables the collection of additional wireless information for devices supporting the IP-MIB, IF-MIB and hte IEEE802.11-MIB. |
| Base Station | Satellite Base Station device. |
| Blade Center | enables additional support for IBM and HP Blade Center devices. |
| Ethernet Switch | allows collection of standard network information. Entuity also supports wireless bridge devices. Any devices added as Ethernet Switches that also have one of the following sysOids will be managed as the StormWorks device type Wireless Bridge:
|
| Load Balancer | enable support for A10, Cisco, Citrix, F5 and Radware Alteon Load Balancers. |
| Managed Host | enables support for the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB (RFC 2790). Please note that in Entuity v19.0, you can add managed hosts either under the Server asset type or the Network Device asset type. Managed hosts provide broad support for SNMP-based server monitoring, whereas server device support provides more information for the supported vendors and can also gather data via SSH or WinRM. |
| Matrix Switch | enables the collection of max installable ports for the Apcon Matrix Switches. |
| Multiplexer | allows the classification of multiplexer devices. There are no additional attributes. |
| PoE Midspan Injector | collects PoE information on Cisco-PAE-MIB (RFC 3621). |
| Router | allows the collection of standard router metrics. |
| SSL Proxy | enables the collection of the proxy service certificate expiration time interval from the CISCO-SSL-PROXY-MIB. |
| Uninterruptible Power Supply | allows the device to be classified as an UPS. |
| VPN | supports the Cisco-IPsec-Flow-Monitor-MIB, Juniper-IVE-MIB and Shiva-VPN-System-MIB. |
| Wide Area Application Service | adds support for Cisco's Actona-Actastor-MIB. |
To edit the device type of a device:
Once you have added a device to your network, you cannot change the Asset Category, e.g. if you have added a device with the Asset Category of Network Device, you cannot then modify the asset so that it is a Server Device.
However, you can change the Asset Type, e.g. if you have added a Server Device that has the Asset Type of OS Only, but you want to change it to an Asset Type of e.g. OpenManage, you can do so.
- Navigate to the Managed Assets page. Select the device that you want to modify and click Modify Asset at the top of the page, from the Overflow Menu or from the right-click Context Menu.
- This will open the Modify Asset form. Click Asset Type and select the type to which you want to change the asset.
- Click Done in the top right of the form to save your changes, otherwise click Cancel.
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