NerveCenter^TM 3.8: Node Classification - Contents - Classifying Nodes Automatically -
Classifying Nodes Manually      When NerveCenter Attempts to Autoclassify Nodes

Classifying Nodes Automatically

In addition to manually adding and classifying nodes, NerveCenter can automatically detect agents on network devices it monitors and add the corresponding node objects for these automatically detected agents. Moreover, NerveCenter can be configured to recognize agents residing on network devices from other network management platforms like OpenView, another NerveCenter, and so on. In such circumstances, if the version information is not available about these automatically detected agents, NerveCenter assigns the version information to corresponding node objects as `unknown'. Since NerveCenter does not poll nodes having `unknown' version, its default behavior is to automatically classify these automatically detected agents.