NCM Devices

Device List

You will see all the provisioned NCM devices in NCM menu. To see devices go to NCM > Devices tab:

The list page provides options to perform various operations on NCM devices. Some actions can be performed on individual devices while some actions are available for bulk devices.

Associated Actions

Edit NCM Devices

Edit button is available as an individual action to change the SNMP device details. The option is available in right side of NCM device list.

Click on the edit button and you’ll see a popup to update the details about the device. Here you can change the basic details, credential profile and NCM collector section.

You can also edit the device from admin section. Go to Admin > NCM Discovery Settings > NCM Discovery Profiles.

Disable NCM Device

When you don’t need to monitor/use the device, disable the device using disable button. You can disable individual device or multiple devices also. To disable multiple devices, first select the devices using checkbox button (on left hand side) and disable from Action menu (top right corner).

Enable NCM Device

You can enable the disabled NCM devices using enable button. You can enable device or multiple devices also. To enable multiple devices, first tick checkbox of devices and then enable from Action menu.

Delete NCM Device

You can delete the NCM devices using delete button. The devices once deleted cannot be restored. You require to add a new device. You can delete one device or multiple devices also.

Manage Tags for Devices

You can manage the tags for multiple devices using this option. Select the desired devices and click on Manage Tags. Pop- up will appear where you need to select the desired tags and hit ‘Update’.

Manage RPE

You can manage the IP for the RPE from here. When you select this option the list of active devices appear from which you can select the desirect IP for the RPE.

Credential Profile

You can select the desired credential profile from the drop-down menu.

Export Device Inventory

Using this option you can directly export the device Inventory list of the selected devices to PDF or CSV.

After exporting the PDF file appears as shown below:

Terminal

You can connect to the NCM device’s terminal from Motadata GUI and run the commands directly. This will remove the dependency of third-party tools to connect with your NCM device. The terminal has following properties:

• You need valid credentials to access the NCM device.
• When you refresh the page or close the terminal, the connection with NCM device is closed.
• There is no difference between using GUI based terminal or running the command directly on the NCM machine.

Username	Username to access the terminal
Password	Password to access the terminal

On successful authentication, you’ll see the terminal. By default, it is in normal mode. You can enable the Min/Max toggle button to maximize or minimze the terminal screen.

Other Options

Click on the three dots to see the actions you can perform on NCM devices. The actions are related to configuration changes of the device. If you want to change the configuration for only one device, do it from here. For multiple devices, see Actions tab. Steps of configuration are discussed there itself.

Backup NCM Devices

After adding devices, the first operation that should be performed is backing up the device configuration. You can create backup of devices using backup button. You can take backup of an individual monitor or a group of monitors. Select the devices for which you want to create a backup and select ‘Backup’ from ‘Action’ menu.

Note that During backup if the configuration settings in device is exactly same as the last backup, motadata will not create another backup. It will simply update the timestamp of existing backup. But if the configuration do not match with the backup, motadata will create a new version of backup.

Steps

You’ll see a menu to configure the backup schedule.

Select the NCM device and choose either of two options: Execute Action or Schedule Action

• Execute Action: Click the Execute Action button to run the backup instantaneously.
• Schedule Action: Click the Schedule Action button to schedule the backups.

• Provide the name of the scheduler.
• Select time of the schedule.
• For scheduling job at specific time, turn on ‘Repeat this job’ and configure the repeat schedule.

Mail Configuration File: If you want to receive the configuration file in email, Turn On this action. As the configuration files may contain sensitive information about the network, use this feature only when really required.

When you are taking backup of device, two backups are generated for each device. The backups are visible in Backup tab under NCM menu.

note

Search will work only for ‘Device Column’ i.e Any keyword present in the Device Column will only be searched and not any other.