Network Monitoring

Dashboard Server
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Has anyone set up network monitoring in SCOM and find they cant search in SquaredUp for the network device interfaces by the "MIB2 System" name which is the friendly name for the network device. In order to find interfaces I need to search on the Device Key which looks like a MAC address but that information isn't very useful to anyone viewing the performance graph.

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This is what is displayed currently when you view performance graph on an interface but i want it to show IF-2 on “MIB2 System Name” as opposed to the Device Key.

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Any ideas?

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If you drag your graph over from performance view onto your dashboard you can scope to it that way. In terms of performance graph labelling, you can change your graph labels to the property ManagedEntityDisplayName by adding the following setting into your graph section in your dashboard XML.

<NameValueSetting>
        <Name>labeltemplate</Name>
        <Value>{{ManagedEntityDisplayName}}</Value>
</NameValueSetting>

You can put any of these properties into that value setting; TopLevelManagedEntityId, ManagedEntityPath, ManagedEntityId, ManagedEntityDisplayName, ManagedEntityName, RuleId, Object, Counter, Instance.

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Found this, will try it out

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Network-Change-Network-f20551ca

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So can any of these properties be displayed shown in the screenshot? In particular the Interface Alias?

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Isn’t there an additonal MP available on technet, which changes this in some way?

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As far as I know it’s only the following properties you can display and customise using graphs; TopLevelManagedEntityId, ManagedEntityPath, ManagedEntityId, ManagedEntityDisplayName, ManagedEntityName, RuleId, Object, Counter, Instance.

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Just be careful about discovery churn with that script. If you want you can check out the original blog posting at http://www.vroege.biz/?p=746 scroll down and look at the last couple of comments.

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[Moderation: moved answer by neilhallyburton 11 May, 2016 to comment]
Thanks I did read that, I am only monitoring a dozen or so network devices and the discovery is set to manual so hopefully has no impact on performance.

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[Moderation: moved answer by neilhallyburton 10 May, 2016 to comment]
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Network-Change-Network-f20551ca
this little script done exactly what i needed, thanks!