Discovery - Devices Discovered
How to get here
- Open the Web interface Discovery Console.
- From the web interface, click . The GO menu appears.
- If the WhatsUp section is not visible, click . The WhatsUp section of the GO menu appears.
- Select . The Discovery Console appears.
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- Open the Discovery Console.
- From the console main menu, select . The Discovery Console appears.
After the discovery settings are configured and you start a discovery session, the Devices Discovered section on the right side of the Discovery Console displays the progress and results of the discovery scan. Information and the status of each device discovery appears as follows:
To select a device role:
- In the Devices Discovered column, for each device listed, select the device role you want to use to define the device configuration. For more information about device role settings, see Device Role Configuration overview.
To add discovered devices to a device group:
- In the Devices Discovered section, click to select the device(s) you want to add to the WhatsUp Gold database.
- Select the devices you want to add to the WhatsUp Gold database. Use one of the following methods to add devices:
- . Right-click a single device, then click . The Add Devices to WhatsUp Gold dialog appears with the new devices added to the list of devices to save.
- . Press
Ctrl
and click to select multiple non-contiguous devices in the list, then right-click and select . The Add Devices to WhatsUp Gold dialog appears with the new devices added to the list of devices to save. - . Press
Shift
and click to select multiple contiguous devices in the list, then right-click and select . The Add Devices to WhatsUp Gold dialog appears with the new devices added to the list of devices to save. - . In the bottom left of the Progress Summary section, click . The Add Devices to WhatsUp Gold dialog appears with all devices that have been completely discovered (the Status column says
completed
) added to the list of devices to save.
- In , enter the name of the device group to which you want to add devices. To use a device group that already exists in WhatsUp Gold, enter its name exactly as it appears in WhatsUp Gold. If the entered name does not already exist in WhatsUp Gold, a device group with that name is created. To use a default name, which includes the type of scan and the time the scan started, click .
- From the Add Devices to WhatsUp Gold dialog, click , then click .
Once discovered devices are added to the device group, WhatsUp Gold begins monitoring them immediately.
To save the results of a discovery session:
: When you save the device discovery results, the list of devices found in the discovery are saved. This does not save the devices to the WhatsUp Gold database.
- From the Discovery console, click . The Save Discovery Session dialog appears.
- Enter a and for the saved discovery session, then click . The discovery session is saved under the Saved Results tab.