Configuring network discovery
Configure how your network is discovered, including which kinds of devices you want to discover, and where the boundaries of the discovery should be.
About this task
- Use the Discovery Configuration Wizard to perform initial discoveries. The wizard provides a guided discovery and makes configuration choices for you based on the answers that you provide as you work through the wizard.
- Use the Discovery Configuration GUI to perform subsequent discoveries. Using the GUI you can configure detailed discovery settings, including scope, seeds, community strings, agent selection and many other configuration settings.
Note: You can also configure a discovery using
the discovery configuration files and the command line. However, you
should configure discovery this way only if you are an experienced Network Manager user
and you understand the different aspects of discovery, including the
discovery processes, phases, stages, Helpers, agents, stitchers and
traps.
You can edit the topology after discovery has finished by using the topology management features in the Network Hop View.