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ThischapterdescribestheDiscoveryfunctionalityandconfiguration.Topicsinclude:

 “DiscoveryTypes”onpage 31

 “PassiveDiscovery”onpage 32

 “IPDiscovery”onpage 32

 “DetailDiscovery”onpage 33

 “DeployingDetailDiscovery”onpage 36

 “DetailDiscoveryProtocols”onpage 37

 “DiscoveringDependencieswithDetailDiscovery”onpage 46

 “VMwareDiscovery”onpage 49

Discovery Types

DiscoveryistheprocessofpopulatingADMʹsmanagementdatarepositorywithCIsandidentifyingthe

relationshipsbetweenthem.InADM,therearethreetypesofdiscovery:PassiveDiscovery,IPDiscovery,and

DetailDiscovery.Table 5‐1defineseachdiscoverytype.

Theconfigurationitemdetails(allhardwareandsoftwareconfigurationinformation)that

arediscovered

throughthesethreediscoverymethodsaredisplayedontheDiscover>Inventorypage.Clickingonahost,

service,ordevicewilldisplayitsproperties.

Discovery

Table 5-1. Types of Discovery

Discovery Types Definition

PassiveDiscovery PassiveDiscoveryistheprocessinwhichnetworktrafficislistenedtopassively.Passive

Discoveryisanon‐intrusiveprocesswhereyoucanspecifyanIPrangetosearchfor

hostsandapplications.

IPDiscovery IPDiscoveryistheprocessthatdetectshostsorotherdeviceswithaspecificIPaddress



whenpassivediscoveryfailstofindthem.AnICMPorTCPconnectionscandetects

devicesthatareactivebutnotasourceordestinationofnetworktraffic,suchasswitches

orrouters.TheIPscandiscoversthedevicesandaddsthemtotheinventorylist.Youcan

createIPdiscoverypolicies

andsetthemtorunperiodically.

DetailDiscovery DetailDiscoveryistheprocessthatprovidesthegranulardetailsofhostsandservices

(suchasOSinformation,theinstalledsoftwarelist,disksize,configurationfilesettings,

andsoon)thatarenotavailablewithpassivediscovery.

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