Discovering network devices

Network discovery is the process WhatsUp Gold uses to identify devices on your network that you may want to monitor. Network discovery scans each device to determine its manufacturer, model, and running software and services. WhatsUp Gold uses this information to automatically assign commonly used monitors to each device.

Before you discover the devices on your network, you need to prepare both your devices and WhatsUp Gold so that devices are discovered properly.

In This Section Preparing devices for discovery Preparing WhatsUp Gold for discovery Configuring and running discovery Configuring Scheduled Discovery Adding a single device manually