Understanding scope settings

You can specify the boundaries of the network to discover by creating scopes that correspond to the IP addresses and subnets that you want to manage.

About this task

Let's suppose that your managed regions are made up of the following IP addresses and subnets:
  • A single IP address, 10.30.1.20/32.
  • The entire Class B subnet, 10.40.0.0/16, except for the Class C subnet 10.40.2.0/24.
  • The first five IP addresses only in a set of subnets, 10.30.*.1-5.
Each of these regions can be defined using scope zones. You can define as many scope zones as necessary for your network discovery.
On your own: Try to identify the boundaries of your own network. How would you express these boundaries using IP addresses, subnets, or formulas similar to the managed regions above?

Results

In the next steps you are going to define each of the three managed regions listed above using scope zones.