Hi all,

I just started with dynamic model and I am not sure if my goal can be reached with dynamic model only.

I have to monitor e.g. error rates occuring on a "something like a port" hosted by a "virtual device" hosted by a device.
The devices are a kind of a host, the rest is stacked and software only. I have all the required MIB files.

Imagine you have a blade server (as device), the single blades (as sub-device) and each blades network intrefaces where you need some data.
The plan is to only discover the "blade server" and each blade should be discovered automatically. Of course, afterwards each "blades" "network card" should be discovered as well.

I already created the classes "blade server", "blade" and "blades interface" and added dependencies like "blades interface is hosted by blade" and vice versa.
Thanks to Berkays tutorials in his blog

I also changed oid-2type configs so that each part of the chain matches a certain oid and will be discovered into its approriate class.

Remember the plan: discover the blade server and automatically discover its blades ...

Thats the point where I need somebody to shed a light on me. I guess i didn't understand the "old MODEL" documentation correctly.
Can i use this "instrumented SNMP" to get the information what single "blades" are located in the "blade server" and afterwards discover them as well with the apropriate relationship ? If not, what would be the option I search for ?
Of course I need to add some rules to build the names e.g. "BladeServerAlpha_Blade1".
But I stuck on that.

Is this a job for dynamic model itself ? If not, what alternatives I have to search for ?
I would like to avoid to add a complete rewrite of the discovery process.


Thanks
Christian