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Including Select Interfaces in NPS Reports

The Network Performance Server (NPS) is the database server installed with the NNM iSPI Performance for Metrics software.

By default, all components of a node are in the same security group as the node. For individual interfaces, you can override this default behavior and assign an interface to a different security group. The purpose of this override is to generate tenant-specific reports that include the appropriate interfaces for that tenant (customer) on shared devices. In this way, each customer can see the interface information for their interfaces but cannot see the other interfaces on the device.

Note The security group override only affects NPS reports. It has no impact on what users can see and do in the NNMi console.

To change the security group assignment for an interface, on the Custom Attributes tab of an Interface form or with the nnmloadattributes.ovpl command, add the InterfaceSecurityGroupOverride custom attribute to that interface. Set the value of this custom attribute to the UUID of the security group. For example:

InterfaceSecurityGroupOverride=0826c95c-5ec8-4b8c-8998-301e0cf3c1c2

Note An interface can belong to only one security group at a time. Setting the InterfaceSecurityGroupOverride custom attribute on an interface breaks the association between that interface and the security group to which its node belongs.