We recently upgraded NCM from 6.0 to 7.3.2.
I don't see a place to view the output of scripted / executed commands for multiple nodes in the Web GUI. Where can I find that info for multiple devices, instead of just for one device?
In 6.0 we did most everything in the actual server application via RDP to the NCM server, and very little via the Web interface. When I wanted to make changes on a number of devices via NCM, I'd RDP to the server, start NCM, select a number of devices, execute a command against them, and NCM 6 would display an output of that command from every device. I could copy that output for reports.
For example, I could select a few hundred Cisco devices and run a "show ntp status" command against them when Daylight Savings Time changed, to see which ones had NTP properly configured and which did not. NCM 6.0 displayed the output of the command from each of them.
In NCM 7.3.2, it appears everything must be done via the web instead of via the application on the server.
So I select the Cisco devices in the Web GUI, execute the "show ntp status" against them, and see . . . nothing. The command (apparently?) runs, but I don't see any output from the targeted equipment.
It turns out the online instructions for this process are incorrect at a basic level. Where page 90 of the Orion NCM Administrator Guide says to "2. Click on CONFIGS > Config Summary", you must instead click on "Configs > Configuration Management". Then you can select nodes.
Once selected, the "Execute Script" button allows you to create a script or reference a saved or stored script.
Finally, you can click the "Execute" button, but if you have more than ~16 nodes displayed, the "Execute" button is off the bottom of the window, and you must scroll down to access it.
Once the script has completed execution, you can click on click on the "Transfer Status tab and look at the far right column called STATUS/DETAILS and then click on the "Script Results" button for each individual device.
But I don't have time for doing that with 400+ devices. I need the functionality of the old NCM 6.0 application that showed the output of all the executed script commands in one window / text file.
Where does one view the output of all of the commands for all of the nodes executed in the Web GUI, instead of being limited to just one device's results?
Or, is there still a place within the server application, and not via the Web GUI, that this part of the job must be done?
Rick S.