Applying Discovery Results

At this step, server creates/updates device accounts and enables/disables monitored services.

When existing device accounts are updated, services that were not discovered on them are, however, not disabled. We might say that existing services are considered "temporary unavailable".

The only exception here is SNMP service that is disabled if discovery process wasn't able to connect to an SNMP Agent running on a host. SNMP service is explicitly disabled because:

  • SNMP monitoring consumes significant system resources (CPU time, memory, disk I/O)
  • SNMP service is enabled by default for manually added devices

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