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SmartBPV Examples

Examples of how you can use SmartBPV to benefit your enterprise include:

• Validating your infrastructure and determining where to place new software or apply maintenance (for example, how many Exchange monitoring agents are required and where).
• Collecting all instances of Windows servers and determining where activity is occurring between them for diagnostic and network planning purposes.
• Monitoring new or emerging protocols within your network (for example, where all Voice over IP elements reside and how they interact).

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Benefits of SmartBPV

How Optimizing SmartBPV Enhances Implementation

We recommend that you optimize SmartBPV so that it is easier to implement. Optimizing SmartBPV helps you manage the interaction of SmartBPV and Discovery.

The best practices for implementing SmartBPV include the following:

• Run a full discovery of your network before running SmartBPV.
• Do not run SmartBPV and Continuous Discovery at the same time.

If it is not practical to run a Discovery of your network before running SmartBPV, we recommend that you separate the running of SmartBPV and Discovery using one of the following methods:

• Run SmartBPV with the option to postpone discovery of unknown nodes. SmartBPV then runs without trying to discover unknown objects, and instead creates a list of objects to be discovered later. When SmartBPV starts, respond No when prompted about the deletion of SmartBPV PLOG files so that the files can be used again. Once SmartBPV completes, run Discovery to find these unknown objects and then start SmartBPV again.

  To configure SmartBPV to postpone discovery of unknown nodes, modify smartbpv.properties to set these values:

  • DISCOVER_MISSING_OBJECTS = False
  • DISCOVERY_SCRIPT = ./temp/SmartBPR_Discovery.script
  • CREATE_MISSING_OBJECTS = No
• Run SmartBPV to skip discovery of all unknown nodes and treat them as unclassified objects. Objects not already discovered will be unclassified in the repository until they are later discovered and classified.

  To configure SmartBPV to skip discovery of unknown nodes, modify smartbpv.properties to set these values:

  • DISCOVER_MISSING_OBJECTS = False
  • CREATE_MISSING_OBJECTS = Yes

If it is not practical for you to run a Discovery of your network before starting SmartBPV and you require that SmartBPV be fully initialized and all objects discovered in a single step, run SmartBPV as a batch process when the load on your system and network is low. The syntax for this mode of operation is as follows:

smartbpv -nogui