I started playing around with SCOM so I'm pretty new to it all. SCOM discovered the network devices but the port names are all screwed up so I'm thinking the out of box config doesn't have everything ...

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I'd like to use it between my ISP and my several network segments each behind its own firewall. In the future [as I figure out how to do it], I'd like to be able to monitor traffic on its ports, e.g.

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