Using Discovery

Practically, discovery use cases can be divided in two groups:

• in some cases we want to scan several hosts detecting the alive ones and finding services they offer;
• in other cases there's essentially a single host we want to examine and find services running on it.

Thus, Iotellect Network Manager offers two discovery actions: multiple-device discovery and single-device discovery.

Just as any Iotellect action, discovery can be started in one of two modes: either interactive, or headless. The latter allows to automatically repeat discovery with specified parameters (for example scheduling it), while the former provides a better control over the process being supported by a wizard that allows to control discovery process by specifying parameters for every discovery step, or, alternatively, allowing to cancel the discovery.

In general, discovery are implemented as Network Device Discovery and Discover Single Device actions placed in Devices (users.admin.devices) context. The actions can be invoked using certain user-interface tools and hooks (like context menus, jobs, favorite items, etc.). The following table introduces types of discovery, classified into four groups:

Follow the links for the details on how to use all discovery types.

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