Network import not always work well

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-04

I'm trying to import the network connections between some elements in DCO from an ETL.

the main import works well, and after the association is done in the DCO, some of the port configurations are imported well, but others not are imported at all. I can't find any difference between the information I inserted in the staging database between the configuration that was imported well and the others that not.

Someone has any suggestion about what may be hapenning ? And, where can i look for differences between the items I imported to know what I'm doing wrong?

Regards.

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-04

I can't really speak to where to look on the pentaho/spoon side of the ETL import, but when I have previously worked on an ETL network import project, there was a status flag that we could check to see if the connection or port synced successfully.

From the DCO side of things, regardless if you are importing it or manually creating a new connection, a few reasons a port or network connection might not be created are as follows:

same port already exists on device (eg a server has (2) 4 port RJ45 cards, both numbered 1-4, they would need either unique numbers, 1-4 and 5-8 or a unique port/module name, NIC1 ports 1-4, NIC2 ports 1-4)
port doesn't exist on source or destination device
port already in use on source or destination device
incompatible connection (eg trying to connect RJ-45 to Fiber)
port needs name
- *this may only apply to the import, since you can create ports in DCO without naming them

In DCO, you can also export the Network cable table validate if the connection was created or not against your import list. If was successfully created, remove it from the import list so you're not troubleshooting existing connections, then run the import again. You may be able to automate some of that and or use a DCO export database as well.

If everything looks correct, it may help to try and manually create the connection in DCO as well.

Hope this helps

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-04

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