Meraki SNMP devices using sysDescr for naming convention when sysName is available.

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

Meraki devices using sysDescr for naming convention when sysName is available.

Environment

Release : 3.7

Component : IM Discovery

Cause

Defect: DE457298

Resolution

The fix for this issue is currently targeted for CA Performance Management 3.7.12.

Note that this is subject to change and there are no release dates I can be provided at this time.

A Vendor Certification extension can be used as a workaround at this time:

URL          : http://<DA>:8581/typecatalog/certifications/snmp/extension/CiscoMerakiManagementMib
REST Action  : PUT
Content Type : application/xml
Body         :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--Auto-generated by the type catalog local manager.-->
<DataModel namespace="http://im.ca.com/certifications/snmp" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="SNMPCertificationFacet.xsd">
    <Author>CA</Author>
    <Version>1.2</Version>
    <FacetType name="CiscoMerakiManagementMib" descriptorClass="com.ca.im.core.datamodel.certs.CertificationFacetDescriptorImpl">
        <FacetOf namespace="http://im.ca.com/core" name="Item" />
        <Attribute name="sysName" external="true" type="OctetString">
            <Documentation/>
                <Source>1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0</Source>
        </Attribute>
        <Expressions>
            <ExpressionGroup destCert="{http://im.ca.com/normalizer}NormalizedSystemInfo" name="SystemNRMDS">
                <Expression destAttr="SystemName">isdef(sysName) ? sysName : sysDescr</Expression>
            </ExpressionGroup>
        </Expressions>
    </FacetType>
</DataModel>

To revert:


URL          : http://<DA>:8581/typecatalog/certifications/snmp/extension/CiscoMerakiManagementMib
REST Action  : PUT
Content Type : application/xml
Body         :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--Auto-generated by the type catalog local manager.-->
<DataModel namespace="http://im.ca.com/certifications/snmp" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="SNMPCertificationFacet.xsd">
    <Author>CA</Author>
    <Version>1.2</Version>
    <FacetType name="CiscoMerakiManagementMib" descriptorClass="com.ca.im.core.datamodel.certs.CertificationFacetDescriptorImpl">
        <FacetOf namespace="http://im.ca.com/core" name="Item" />
    </FacetType>
</DataModel>