Is the inventory engine smart enough to work out the poller type itself during inventory process or it rely on whatever poller currently attaching to the node during adding stage?
I have a standalone NCM and I am using SDK (Perl script) to add node into Orion/NCM databases, I am having issue with working out what sort of custom poller should I use for my devices,over which I have over 20 flavors of software & hardware switches (not to mention L2 and/or L3 device type) from multiple vendors. I can manage to add custom pollers for certain devices only but not all of the devices in my environment. So I am planning to add only generic pollers (as below) and let the NCM software to work out (relevant pollers) itself when inventorying my assets.(I use this functionality a lot). My question is that does my generic poller list is sufficient? Does NCM actually need custom pollers (L2 and L3 resources) since I do not use polling stats so far?
my @PollerTypesGeneric=(
"N.Details.SNMP.Generic",
"N.Uptime.SNMP.Generic"
);