What is the purpose of the VNA Inventory container in Spectrum

Products

• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

We have devices discovered in Spectrum for SDwan and trying to understand the functionality of the VNA inventory folder:

 

Environment

Release : 21.2.x 22.2.x

Resolution

• VNA inventory (container) is just a placeholder for all VNA entities discovered via the VNA integration.
  
• All models (Underlay\Overlay) can be moved to their respective containers based on your needs.
  
• If the SNMP model already exists in a site container it will be reconciled (not populated into the VNA container).
  
• Anything discovered via VNA Integration is placed under SDN Manager Section (these should be left as is)
  
• Anything discovered via VNA Integration is also placed under VNA Inventory Container within the Universe - These can be moved around within the Universe as needed to other Site Containers.
  
• If an SNMP model is already discovered and placed somewhere in the Universe then, it would automatically not show up under the VNA Inventory Universe Container.
  
• So if you are seeing SDWAN Routers in this VNA container verify if they exist anywhere else or not within the universe via Locator Search.
  
• The same would apply to SDWAN Routers they are not displayed.  They would already be placed where they belong in the Universe.
  
• If you selected SDN_Manager it would take you to the model within the SDN_Manager tree.
• If you run a locator search on a Model once it is returned if you right-click on it and select Location and Select Universe it will take you to where it is located in the Universe (which Container):

 

*From Spectrum 10.4.2+ SLA Path models are not displayed under the SDN Manager hierarchy. You can use the locater search to find SLA Paths.