Configuring discovery settings
To add discovery settings:
- From the main menu of the WhatsConnected console, select . The Discovery Settings dialog appears.
- The dialog displays all previously defined discovery settings. To create a new collection of discovery settings, right-click in the left list, a right-click menu appears.
- Click . The New Discovery Settings dialog appears.
- Enter a that gives context to the discovery settings you are creating (i.e. TestLab, Production Network). This name is stored so that it can be reused for later network scans.
- Click .
- On the Discovery Settings dialog, a new entry appears in the left pane list for the new collection of discovery settings. Select the new collection name from the list.
- Select the discovery method for the network scan from . For more information about the discovery types, see About Layer 2 Network Discovery scan types.
- Enter the number of to use while running the discovery scan. This indicates the number of separate threads to run in the background as WhatsConnected attempts to communicate with the devices on the network.
: If you are concerned about the load discovery could place on the network, you can reduce the Max Threads to cut back on the concurrent network communication.
- Select whether the discovery engine should try to before attempting any other protocol.
- Select whether the discovery engine should attempt to to provide a more complete scan during an type of discovery.
: This option tells the engine to take each discovered subnet and run a ping sweep through it to ensure all devices are discovered in the defined subnet.
- Select whether to . This is a trace flag for support purposes; enable this option only by direction from technical support
- Enter the . For more details in regards to the Seed IP Scope, see About Seed IP Scope.
- Enter the . For more details in regards to the Seed IP Scope, see About Include IP Scope.
- Enter the . For more details in regards to the Seed IP Scope, see About Exclude IP Scope.
- Click to save all changes made in the Discovery Settings dialog.
To rename discovery settings:
- From the main menu of the WhatsConnected console, select . The Discovery Settings dialog appears.
- The dialog displays all previously defined discovery settings. To rename a collection of discovery settings, right-click the collection that you would like to rename, then click . The Rename Discovery Settings dialog appears.
- Enter a new for the collection of discovery settings.
- Click .
- Click to save all changes made in the Discovery Settings dialog.
To delete discovery settings:
- From the main menu of the WhatsConnected console, select . The Discovery Settings dialog appears.
- The dialog displays all previously defined discovery settings. To delete a collection of discovery settings, right-click the collection that you would like to delete, then click . The selected collection of discovery settings is deleted.
- Click .
- Click to save all changes made in the dialog.