NetIM ships with a set of system-defined device drivers. System-defined device drivers are designated by a lock icon in the Device Drivers wizard. The lock indicates that the device driver cannot be deleted and the modifications you can make to it are limited. New commands can be added and certain commands can be modified. For a list of the CLI commands included in system-defined device drivers, see CLI commands included in system-defined device drivers.

Some default command types that are included in a system-defined device driver are not collected by the Device Config File Collection in the default configuration. This is typically done when the output is extensive and is only needed for certain workflows, as is the case with IP Route and Border Gateway Protocol Routing Information Base (BGP RIB). For a list of the variants of the IP route commands that are allowable for each supported device, see Supported IPv4 IP Route commands.

With the exception of BGP RIB, if a command type is included in the system-defined device driver, the output of that command can be parsed and imported into NetIM. BGP RIB can be collected and archived by NetIM but it is not imported in the database.