How to discover dplane components on Checkpoint device

Products

• Network Observability
• CA Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

When discovering a checkpoint device, you only get the mplane components, not dplane.

Environment

DX NetOps all supported versions

Resolution

The dplane components require manual discovery.

1) FIrst discover the checkpoint device as you normally would.

2) Get the ID of the device from the Data Aggregator from the device admin page or 

http(s)://<Data-Aggregator-hostname>:<PORT>/rest/devices

3) Get the appropriate tenant ID from:

http(s)://<data-aggregator-hostname>:<port>/rest/tenants

4) Using the information above POST the appropriate XML to the tenants devices/subsystems endpoint:

Rest Method: POST
Content-Type: application/xml
URL: http(s)://<data-aggregator-hostname>:<port>/rest/t/tenant/<tenant-item-id>/devices/subsystems

Where <tenant-item-id> is the id from step 3.

Body:

Examples:

You would use the appropriate SNMP version depending on the profile assigned to the original device.
In the examples below 1234 represents the Data Aggregator ItemID of the device.


SNMPv3:

<SubSystemCommInfo version=“1.0.0">
    <ParentDeviceItemID>1234</ParentDeviceItemID>
    <ContextName>dplane</ContextName>
</SubSystemCommInfo>

SNMPv1/2:

<SubSystemCommInfo version=“1.0.0”>
    <ParentDeviceItemID>1234</ParentDeviceItemID>
    <ContextName>@dplane</ContextName>
    <ContextNameUsage>SUFFIX</ContextNameUsage>
</SubSystemCommInfo>