Discoverable technologies and devices
Network discovery is capable of discovering different network technologies and devices.
Network discovery can discover the following:
OSI layers
- Layer 2 connectivity
- Layer 3 connectivity
Element Management Systems (EMS)
- Alcatel 5620 SAM
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
- MPLS Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- VPN Route Forwarding (VRF)
- Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
- MPLS Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF)
- MPLS Label-Switched Paths (LSP)
- MPLS pseudowires
Standards-based support
Certain devices are not supported explicitly but can be discovered through support for Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards:
- Interface and IfStack table
- ENTITY mib
- VRRP
- LLDP
- IP Inet routing
- dot1d dot1q switching
- SONMP
Devices
- 3Com stacked switch
- Alteon routers and switches
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
- Spanning Tree Protocol
- Avaya (formerly Nortel) devices
- Nortel Passport
- SynOptics Network Management Protocol (SONMP)
- Containment
- Brocade devices
- Containment
- Foundry Discovery Protocol (FDP)
- Centillion switches
- VLAN
- Cisco devices
- Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
- Cisco Carrier Routing System Link Aggregation Group (CRS LAG)
- IEEE 802.1 QinQ configuration
- IP SLA
- Spanning Tree Protocol
- Virtual Device Context (VDC) from Cisco Nexus devices
- Virtual Port Channel (vPC)
- VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
- Check Point VSX devices
- Virtual firewalls
- Context data
- CoreBuilder 9000 switches
- Dasan switches
- Layer 2 connectivity
- VLANs
- Trunk ports
- Enterasys switches
- Cabletron Discovery Protocol
- FDB
- VLAN
- Extreme switches
- Layer 2 connectivity
- EDP
- VLAN
- F5 switches
- Foundry switches
- HP ProCurve switches
- Huawei switches
- Network Quality Analyser (NQA)
- Quidway
- IBM System Networking switches
- Layer 2 connectivity
- VLAN containment
- VLAN tags
- VLAN Trunk
- Trunk Group
- Juniper
- Juniper Box Anatomy
- Virtual router and VRF context-sensitive stacking information
- LAG
- VLAN tagging
- IEEE 802.1 QinQ
- IP SLA
- ARP
- Marconi ES-3810 switches
- Nokia routers
- VRRP
Other protocols
- Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP)
- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)