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Node management

Node management describes the equipment (the nodes) Auditix works with, and how to reach it:

ManufacturersWho makes the equipment: name, logo, website, support.
ModelsThe models of each manufacturer, with their control key and connection script.
SNMP profilesSNMP v1, v2c or v3 settings and credentials.
CLI profilesSSH or Telnet, user name, password or private key, enable password.
ProfilesAn SNMP profile and a CLI profile combined, for a kind of equipment.
Additional credentials & custom variablesEverything else a profile needs: web or API accounts, addresses, tokens.
Shared items & overridesItems shared by the platform or a package, and the credentials a tenant sets for them.

Where to manage them

Section titled “Where to manage them”

The menu Node management exists in two places:

  • Inside a tenant: the tenant’s own items, plus the items the platform shares with every tenant and the items of installed packages, read-only.
  • In the platform view (platform administrators): the items shared with every tenant. The page headers say so: Node management · Shared with every tenant.

Each item shows its Origin: Platform, Tenant or the package it comes from (see Overview & concepts). Items installed by a plugin are read-only everywhere and follow their package.

A typical setup

Section titled “A typical setup”
  1. Create the manufacturer (Extreme Networks), then its models (5520-24T), each with the control key and connection script that prepare a CLI session (Ctrl+Y, then enable and terminal more disable).
  2. Create an SNMP profile (SNMPv3 - Monitoring (authPriv)) and a CLI profile (SSH - Network operators).
  3. Combine them in a profile (Extreme Networks - Default Fabric Engine), and add what else the equipment needs: an additional credential for the web interface, custom variables for its REST API.

Or install a marketplace package that brings all of this ready-made, and only set your own credentials.

Deleting an item in use

Section titled “Deleting an item in use”

An item still used by another cannot be deleted. Auditix refuses and says why, for example:

  • “Extreme Networks” is used by 2 model(s) and 0 node(s): it cannot be deleted.
  • “SNMPv3 - Monitoring (authPriv)” is used by 1 profile(s): it cannot be deleted.
Item Cannot be deleted while used by
Manufacturer Models (of any tenant, for a manufacturer shared by the platform) or nodes
Model Nodes
SNMP profile, CLI profile Profiles

Change or delete what uses it first. The Models, Nodes and Profiles columns of the tables show how much each item is used.

Permissions

Section titled “Permissions”

Inside a tenant: Node management › Manufacturers, Models and Profiles (View, Create, Edit, Delete); the last one covers SNMP profiles, CLI profiles and profiles alike. In the platform view: Node management › Platform manufacturers, Platform models and Platform profiles. See Roles & permissions.