Seeding discovery using the Ping finder

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Seed the Ping finder with a device or subnet address at which the finder begins looking for devices. You can specify seeds for the Ping finder and save these seeds. You can separately decide whether to activate the Ping finder for the discovery.

About this task

To configure the Ping finder, complete the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Optional: From the Seed tab of the Network Discovery Configuration GUI, select the Use Ping Finder in Discovery check box.
  2. To delete an existing ping seed, select the Select check box next to the required row and click Delete Delete row button.
  3. To add a new ping seed, click New New button.
  4. To edit an existing ping seed, click the required entry in the list.
  5. If you add or edit a ping seed, the Ping Seed Properties page is displayed. Complete the fields as follows and click OK.
    Seed by:
    Select one of the following options:
    IP
    Type an IP address.
    Subnet
    Specify a subnet and type the number of netmask bits. The Netmask field is automatically updated.
    Restriction: Network Manager does not support the IPv4–mapped IPv6 format and expects all IPv6 addresses to be in standard colon-separated IPv6 format. For example, Network Manager does not support an IPv4–mapped IPv6 address such as ::ffff:192.0.2.128. Instead enter this address as ::ffff:c000:280 (standard colon-separated IPv6 format).
    Timeout
    Specify the time in milliseconds to wait for a reply from a pinged address before timing out.
    Retries
    Specify the number of times a device is to be repinged.
  6. Click Save Save button.