Device Grouping assistance / best practices

[#1]

I am looking for the best way to organise devices on NetMRi using Device Grouping.  Our standard ensure that the snmp-server location (SNMP Object sysLocation) uses the format:  "Site / Floor"

When I create Device Groups I label them like this:
Name (of Device Group) = Bracknell Routers 3rd Floor

Membership Criteria:
$sysLocation like /["Bracknell"] and ["3rd"] and ["Floor"]*./ and $Type like /.*Router.*/

Once the group has been created I click the "Generate Groups" button. At which point I hope to have only the device of type "Router" containing the snmp-server location of "Bracknell 3rd Floor"

This is not working very well and I suspect it may have something to do with the regex in the Membership Criteria.

If anyone could assist me I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance,
Daren

[#2]

$sysLocation like /Bracknell 3rd/ and $Type in ["Router"]

That will create a group for Bracknell 3rd Floow

Now for Bracknell 2nd floor use the following:

$sysLocation like /Bracknell 2nd/ and $Type in ["Router"]

Now for Bracknell 2nd floor with Routers and Switches use the following:

$sysLocation like /Bracknell 2nd/ and $Type in ["Router","Switch-Router","Switch"]

Also click the blue question mark and it will give you move ideas on creating groups.

Sif

[#3]

Thank you for the help- but I tried this regex for device grouping and it still did not work:

$sysLocation like /Bracknell 4th/ and $Type in ["Switch"]

And for information, the interface description is set as follows on the Cisco device:

snmp-server location Bracknell - 4th Floor

However NetMRI has yet to place it and others on that floor in the group.

I tried amending the script to this:

$sysLocation like /Bracknell 4th/ and $sysLocation like / 4th/ and $Type in ["Switch"]

But still no luck - nothing appears in the device group.

is this a bug or is the expression wrong I wonder?

[#4]

Unless I'm missing something obvious, your pattern doesn't match the config statement.

"Bracknell - 4th"  <>  "Bracknell 4th"

[#5]

Thanks Marty,

I understood (but of course can be corrected) that the "like" looks for pattern matches but is not an exact match, so  "snmp-server location Bracknell - 5th Floor" and also "snmp-server location Bracknell 5th Floor" - neither of these work.

I am stumped really because a Device grouping for switches on the 3rd floor worked the first time.

I tried Sif Baksh 's recommendation but again - nothing was placed into any groups.

I am running a very old version of software and so I am wondering if this has any bearing on it

[#6]

Okay this problem seems to be resolved.  As soon as I upgraded the software to 6.3.1.42 the device grouping using the same syntax started to work as expected.  Thanks to everyone who helped.

[#7]

Hello, Could someone please help me here. I want to create a device group where config credential status and snmp credential status  for a device are "Ok"

[#8]

The supported variables for Device Grouping are the following

$ID unique NetMRI ID for device

$IPAddress IP address of the device (e.g., 192.168.1.33)

$Name name of the device (e.g., rtr1.netcodia.com)

$Network name of the Network View for the device’s management IP address

$Type type of the device (e.g., Router, Switch, etc.)

$Assurance assurance level for the device type

$Vendor vendor of the device (e.g., Cisco)

$Model model of the device

$Version software version of the device

$Community SNMP community of the device

$sysName SNMP system name

$sysDescr SNMP system description

$sysLocation SNMP system location

$sysName SNMP system name

$sysDescr SNMP system description

$sysContact SNMP system contact

Additionally, you can use custom fields for Device Grouping. So, you can't create a live device group that updates when the credential status changes. 

However, you can create a custom Report, where you can get a list of Devices and their status for Config Credential or SNMP credential