How to stop insight manager polling specific hosts

[craigd]

We have insight manager setup to discover on an IP range. I find that it has discovered my switches as well and NNM is thus getting traps from these switches because the Insght manager server is performing an SNMP read on them with an incorrect community string

I would like to get Insight manager to stop polling these switches. i have used Options > Discovery > Configure general Setting and added the swictches into teh Ping exclusion list, but this will probably just stop it from pinging the switches.
How would I get it to stop the pollig

The exact error I see in NNM is

Cisco incorrect community name (SNMP authenticationFailure trap) from acpbk01;2 .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5.5.1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.324 0

[Rancher · Accepted solution]

Try this: in SIMS, go to Options, Discovery, COnfigure General Settings. In the Enable Discovery Filters sections, remobve the checkmarks from anything you don't want discovered, like Switch. Them remove any that have been discovered from SIMS.

[Scott White_5]

As long as the devices do not exist in SIM then they will not be polled. You can do this by exluding the IP addresses from your discovery ranges and then deleting the devices from SIM. They should never get discovered again.

I argue about this with our network guys at least once a year, when they move switches and then complain that they are seeing the polling errors in NNM. The easiest solution is for them to provide their SNMP READ string to so that it can be added SIM eliminating the authentication failures and the need to keep an exlusion list up to date for the switches.

Scott

[craigd]

Though this was resolved but ran another ovdumevents and found the errors still there.

I have excluded the IPs from the discovery
I have deleted the discovered switches from SIM, but the SIM server still seems to be polling them

[craigd]

This issue is still outstanding.
I still have these error in NNM even though I have deleted the switches from SIM and also deseletced switches Discovery > Configure General Settings
Is there anything else I can do to stop SIM from polling these network devices