Understanding the discovery process for head end devices

Device discovery is the process of “finding” devices and adding these devices to Netcool Configuration Manager for the purpose of configuration management.

Users can initiate the discovery of both head end and non-head end devices. However, the discovery of head end managed devices is the responsibility of the head end driver and will be triggered each time the driver is requested to “reconcile” the configuration of the head end device configuration.

Users can also manually add devices through the Netcool Configuration Manager API or Netcool Configuration Manager client.