Defining discovery zones to restrict discovery

To restrict the discovery, you must define discovery zones. You can define discovery zones in several ways.

Choose one of the following methods to define a discovery zone:

• Define discovery zones using the Discovery Configuration GUI.
• Construct zones by appending an OQL insert into the scope.zones table with the DiscoScope.cfg configuration file. This method is for more experienced users.

For each zone you must specify the following information:

• The type of network protocol used by the zone, although currently only IP is supported. You can define as many zones as necessary. Multiple zones can also be defined within the same insert.
• The action to be taken for the zone, where m_Action=1 means include in the discovery, and m_Action=2 means exclude. You can define both inclusion and exclusion zones. The action to be taken in the smallest zone overrides the actions in the larger zones.
• A list of varbinds (name=value) that define the present discovery zone.