[Devmon] Host with multiple snmp strings

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I currently monitor quite a few Nortel/Avaya 8600's via devmon but I've run into an interesting issue with polling in regards to VRFs. 

The router/switch answers polls with "string1" and gives back info on the "default or global VRF"....so far so good..

If I use "string2"(which is set for the VRF), then I get back info from VRF2, and "string3" gives info on VRF3...and so on. 

I've specified the tag:
snmp:cid(string2)model(Nortel;custom) 
in the host file, and devmon says it has discovered it as I have specified, but because the host responds to string1 while running "devmon --readbbhosts", it continues to do the tests with string1 and gives me the output from VRF0 (global) instead of VRF2. 

How am I suppose to "trick" devmon and poll with the other string ?




   
Ken Connell
Intermediate Network Engineer
Computer & Communication Services
Ryerson University
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