Viewing progress summary information

After a new discovery session starts, the Progress Summary information displays to the left side of the Discovery Console and provides information about the discovery in progress.

Device Summary

• Device Limit. Lists the number of devices that WhatsUp Gold is licensed to manage.
• Existing Devices. Lists the number of devices that WhatsUp Gold is monitoring.
• Discovered Devices. Lists the number of devices discovered in the current scan.

Network Traffic

• SNMP Bytes (in/out). Indicates the amount of SNMP data WhatsUp Gold has sent and received in the current discovery process.
• PDU (Protocol Data Unit) (in/out). Indicates the amount of data sent and received among peer network devices during the discovery process.
• Scanned. Indicates the number of devices scanned and the total number of devices to be scanned.

Session Metrics

• Scan Start. Indicates the time the discovery started.
• Scan End. Indicates the time the discovery ended.
• Elapsed Time. Indicates the time the discovery took to complete.

Session Settings

• Scan Type. Indicates the current discovery method used in the current network scan.
• Layer 2 scan. Indicates whether Layer 2 discovery was enabled for the discovery scan.
• SNMP Credentials. Indicates the number of devices that were discovered with SNMP credentials.
• Windows Credentials. Indicates the number of devices that were discovered with WMI credentials.
• VMWare Credentials. Indicates the number of devices that were discovered with VMware credentials.

See Also Configuring and running discovery Configure discovery settings Running discovery Viewing device discovery information Adding discovered devices to WhatsUp Gold Configuring scheduled discovery Configuring discovery results email settings Viewing Device Information tab Viewing scheduled discoveries Saving discovery results Using saved discovery results