Ip discovery overview – Brocade Network Advisor SAN + IP User Manual v12.3.0 User Manual
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NOTE
Discovery only displays products that are assigned to your area of responsibility (AOR). For more
information about user accounts, refer to
NOTE
You must have the Discover Setup - IP privilege to configure and run discovery. For more information
about privileges, refer to
NOTE
You must have the All IP Products AOR (area of responsibility) in your user account to discover new
products. For more information about user accounts, refer to
NOTE
IP discovery requires Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) or Telnet support on the device to
determine device reachability.
NOTE
DCB devices discovered through Fabric discovery (from the SAN tab) are automatically added to IP
discovery during rediscovery.
Discovery is the method that the Management application uses to find data networking devices on
the network. When the Management application discovers devices, it finds all IP addresses on a
device and stores them in the Management application database. The Management application
uses the primary address of a product to communicate with the product. The primary address is
determined using the following rules:
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If you configure discovery to prefer loopback addresses (refer to
on page 86), and there are loopback IP addresses configured in the product; and
the loopback IP address is reachable from the Management application server, then the
loopback IP address is the primary IP address of the product.
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If you did not configure discovery to prefer loopback addresses, the original IP address used to
discover the product is the primary IP address of the product.
The primary address is the address that appears on the Network Object Manager and other
configuration and display panels in the Management application.
The Management application provides two types of discovery, simple discovery and profile-based
discovery.
Simple discovery discovers the device with a specific IP address and/or DNS name. It is triggered
by device configuration changes on SNMP traps, certain configuration deployments to a device,
and adding device or rediscovering a device from the Discover Setup – IP dialog box.
Profile-based discovery allows you to define the discovery policy. It provides more flexible ways to
specify IP addresses to discover. It also enables you to discover new devices from already
discovered devices.