Discovery cycles
A discovery cycle has occurred when the discovery data flow for a particular cycle has gone from start to finish. A full discovery might require more than one cycle.
The discovery data flow can be categorized into the
following conceptual steps:
- Discovering device existence
- Discovering device details (standard)
- Discovering device details (context-sensitive)
- Discovering associated device addresses
- Discovering device connectivity
- Creating the topology
These steps follow the discovery data flow in order from start to finish, with the exception of discovering device details (context-sensitive), which replaces discovering device details (standard) if the discovery is context-sensitive.