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The process of adding devices to Boxilla to manage is known as discovery. The discovery process can be automatic
or can be manual.
6.1 DISCOVERY—AUTOMATICALLY FINDING DEVICES
Boxilla uses Black Box’s discovery protocol to automatically find devices to be managed on the network. This discovery protocol
can span across subnets. To allow Black Box’s Emerald or InvisaPC automatic discovery protocol to operate across subnets,
multicast routing should be enabled in the routers in the network. Black Box’s discovery protocol is not required for Emerald or
InvisaPC systems to operate but it is recommended to enable Boxilla to search for devices across multiple subnets. If the Emerald
or InvisaPC discovery protocol is not enabled, i.e. routers do not have multicast routing enabled, the administrator will have to
manually add in devices not on its subnet, i.e. add in each device individually by its IP address.
To start adding devices to Boxilla, click on the Discovery button on the main menu. The Discovery page is displayed as shown
in Figure 17. The example page already has some devices “discovered.” The devices are listed in a table as shown in Figure 17.
FIGURE 17. DISCOVERY PAGE
This table shows all devices “discovered” automatically or manually added. To discover devices automatically, click
on the “discover” button on the page. This causes the Black Box Discovery protocol to be run where a “discovery” packet
is broadcasted to network and devices respond to Boxilla by sending a UDP unicast back to Boxilla. See Appendix B: Overview
of Boxilla and Emerald or InvisaPC Network Protocols for more details on the actual protocol sequence.
CHAPTER 6: DISCOVERY—ADDING DEVICES
