Device Zones
Device Zones is a standard configuration interface for adding, editing, and removing device zones within the Device Catalog. Grouping specific devices into a particular zone can be used for organization or for polling purposes. This provides scoping for discovery and pro-active polling, ensuring that devices within a zone are accessed by monitoring components in that zone. Multiple devices with the same IP address must be in separate zones for proper polling.
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Device zones are mutually exclusive groupings of devices. Devices can only belong to one device zone.
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Device zones are commonly used for polling or active collection so that collectors and/or pollers can be distributed to various locations.
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You can move devices to a different zone one device at a time using the Devices UI, or multiple devices at a time using the Device Management UI and selecting the Move Device to Zone action.
To open the Devices interface, from the main navigation menu, select Configuration, then Device Catalog, and then Devices.
To open the Device Management interface, from the main navigation menu, select Configuration, then Device Catalog, and then Device Management.
For information about interacting with the grid and form, see Standard Configuration Interface in Unified Assurance Concepts.
This user interface calls REST methods from the api/device/zones endpoints. See REST API for Unified Assurance Core for details. To open this interface, from the main navigation menu, select Configuration, then Device Catalog, and then Device Zones.
Form Fields
- Name: The name of the device zone.
Caution:
If you are using Network Performance Management (NPM) and have configured multitenancy, you map the IDs for device zones to corresponding cluster zones, and assign them to tenants. If you delete a device zone that is assigned to an NPM tenant, that tenant may lose access to metric data. If you use a device zone with the same ID as a cluster zone for a different purpose, NPM tenants may have access to the wrong metric data.