What is a one sentence summary of your feature request?
Password Maintenance on Activity Monitor Agents
Please describe your idea in detail. What is your problem, why do you feel this idea is the best solution, etc.
Some organizations require password changes on service accounts to happen on a periodic basis. Currently that requires a manual input on every NAS instance, then a connection check, then click ok and move on to the next NAS device. In larger organizations this can lead to hundreds of instance changes each time the password needs changed.
It would be helpful for there to be one place to make that change and have it push the change out to the rest of the instances. I realize that there can be a different account on different NAS devices but a system of grouping could be created to allow you to associate x number of devices with a particular ID. This way you can update the password on that ID in one place and it would only affect the agents/NAS devices related to that ID.
How do you currently solve the challenges you have by not having this feature?
We have no choice but to perform manual changes on each item.
Thank you for posting to the Ideas forum. I have a suggestion that I’m not sure if you’re already aware of but could make this process a bit less cumbersome for you. We are able to multi-select monitored hosts of the same type and edit some configurations, such as the credentials used, for multiple hosts at the same time.
The simplest way is to group like hosts, e.g. NetApp devices, on the “Monitored Hosts” tab by clicking the “Details” column header to sort the column either ascending or descending which will group up the types of hosts we’re monitoring. You can then hold down the CTRL key to select multiple hosts, then click the Edit button on the toolbar to bring up their configurations. Just be mindful to make sure you’re clicking on the hosts themselves and not the outputs of the hosts. There is a “+/-” icon on the top left just above the “State” column header that can be used to collapse or expand the hosts. When collapsed you’re less likely to click on the outputs for any hosts and can also leverage the SHIFT key to multi-select.
Note that in cases where the “User name” or “User password” fields are not populated with the same credentials we would see the “User name” or “User password” fields blank, however they can still be updated and once saved those hosts would all have the same credentials applied.
For reference here’s a KB article link on performing bulk actions: