Discovery

Discovery (discovery) is a system context that provides network device discovery operations and data. It is not shown in the visible context tree.

Unique Actions

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Network Device Discovery

This action is used to discover network devices and create their accounts in Iotellect Network Manager. See Network Discovery for details.

Action Icon:

Action Name:

networkDeviceDiscovery

Non-Interactive Mode:

Not Supported

Permissions:

Accessible at Observer permission level

Common Actions

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Edit Context Permissions, Monitor Related Events.

Context States and Icons

This context has no states. It is always represented by the icon.

Advanced Information

Context Information

Context Type: discovery

Context Name: discovery

Context Description: Discovery

Context Path: discovery

Context Mask: discovery

Context Permissions

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Level

Description

None

No access allowed.

Observer

No access allowed.

Operator

No access allowed.

Manager

No access allowed.

Engineer

No access allowed.

Administrator

All operations.

Public Variables (Properties)

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This context has no public variables (properties).

Public Functions

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Network Device Discovery

Returns a list of discovered devices and associated services. In contrast with the Network Device Discovery action in Devices context, the function does not perform the Applying Discovery Results step, hence it does not create/update device accounts in Iotellect Network Manager.

Function Name:

discovery

Permissions:

Accessible at Administrator permission level

Input Records:

1

Input Format:

Dynamic, can include any of the following fields (or have no fields at all):

Name

Type

Description

editServicesSelectionCommand

DataTable

Specifies a list of services to detect along with parameters to be used for detecting service availability. See Service Selection and Setup for more details.

seedRoutersCommand

DataTable

Specifies Seed Router Addresses. See point (1) of Host Addressed Specification for more details.

editRangesCommand

DataTable

Specifies IP Ranges. See point (2) of Host Addressed Specification for more details.

optionsCommand

DataTable

Specifies Discovery Tuning parameters.

If any or all of the above-described fields are missing Default Discovery Settings will be used instead of unspecified parameters.

To see an example of how these fields must be configured, create a Scheduled Job for the Network Device Discovery action and see the Parameters of the Scheduled Job configuration. You can even export this Parameters table to use it as a template for the input argument of the discovery function. Note, however, that you do not need the editAddressesCommand field.

Output Records:

0...unlimited

Output Format:

See Discovery Results Review for a list of the output format fields and their descriptions.

Public Events

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Common Events: info (Information), contextStatusChanged (Status Changed)

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