Discovery - 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.

  Tip: You can mouse over the scan type information in the second column for details on the Scan Type IP address.

• SNMP Credentials. Indicates the number of devices that were discovered with SNMP credentials.

  Tip: You can mouse over the scan type information in the second column for details on the SNMP credential types.

• Windows Credentials. Indicates the number of devices that were discovered with WMI credentials.

  Tip: You can mouse over the scan type information in the second column for details on the WMI credential types.

• VMWare Credentials. Indicates the number of devices that were discovered with VMware credentials.

  Tip: In the WhatsUp Gold console, you can mouse over the scan type information in the Range column for details on the VMware credential types.