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Getting Started with Ridgeline
Ridgeline Concepts and Solutions Guide
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Figure 8: Results of a discovery
To add devices to the database, select the set of devices you want to add and click the Add button.
For each device or set of devices you add to the inventory database, Ridgeline first asks you to provide
contact information for those devices:
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The device login name and password
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The SNMP write community string (for SNMP v1 devices)
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The protocol used for communicating with the device (HTTP or HTTPS)
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The User Name, Privacy and Authentication protocols and passwords for SNMP V3 devices
Ridgeline pops up a dialog box where you can provide this information. It pre-fills the fields with a
default set of communication information that you can change as appropriate to the specific devices you
are adding.
The information you provide in the pop-up dialog is used for all the devices in the set you have selected
to add. Therefore, if you have devices that use different passwords, protocols, or community strings,
you must add them to the database in separate Add operations.
Adding Devices Individually
There may be a number of situations in which you want to add an individual device to Ridgeline
without doing a discovery. In this case you can use the Add Device function to add a device to the
inventory. Select
New > Device from the File menu.
Figure 7 shows an example of adding individual devices to Ridgeline. For each device you want to add,
enter the device’s IP address and click New .