Network Discovery
 | Discovery is the act of detecting something new. In the network management industry, discovery designates a process of finding new network devices, detecting services and applications running on them, adding and configuring them for monitoring and management. |
Particularly, a procedure of discovery is described in Discovery Process section.
From a practical point of view, discovery supplements, extends and automates tedious task of manual (one-by-one) device addition and configuration. It helps to form a basis of monitoring infrastructure, and then maintain it in a relevant state. More specifically, device discovery can be used to accomplish several network management tasks:
- Interactive multiple-device discovery for initially configuring the monitoring of large network segments.
- Single-device discovery that can be useful when there's a single device you want to add and configure for monitoring.
- Headless multiple- and single-device discovery for fully automated discovery operation (e.g., scheduling it to be invoking periodically, or in response to some events).
- Rediscovering services running on a particular device that was added earlier.
- Automatically discover and add devices that uncover themselves by sending notifications of some kind (e.g. Syslog message, or SNMP traps) to Iotellect server.
Discovery is available via Network Device Discovery and Discover Single Device actions in Devices context, and can be invoked through certain user-interface tools and hooks (like context menus, jobs, favorite items, etc.) as described in Using Discovery section. Some tasks of the Discovery Process can also be performed using the Network Device Discovery function of the Discovery (discovery) context.
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