Chapter 3: Discovering and Adding Network Devices
Adding Multiple Devices (Network Sonar Discovery)
SolarWinds products employ the easy-to-use Network Sonar Discovery Wizard to
direct you in the discovery of devices on your network. Before using Network
Sonar Discovery, consider the following points about network discovery in
SolarWinds UDT:
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The Network Sonar Discovery Wizard recognizes network devices that are
already in your Orion database and prevents you from importing duplicate
devices.
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CPU and Memory Utilization charts are automatically enabled for your
Windows, Cisco Systems, VMware, and Foundry Networks devices.
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The community strings you provide in the Network Sonar Discovery Wizard
are only used for SNMP GET requests, so read-only strings are sufficient.
The following procedure steps you through the discovery of devices on your
network using the Network Sonar Discovery Wizard.
To discover multiple devices on your network:
1.
If the Network Sonar Discovery Wizard is not already open,
click
Start > All Programs > SolarWinds Orion > Configuration and Auto-
Discovery > Network Discovery
.
2.
If you want to create a new discovery,
click
Add New Discovery
, click
Add New Discovery
.
3.
If you have already defined a network discovery,
a number of options
are available on the Network Sonar Discovery tab. Select one of the
following:
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If you want to edit an existing discovery before using it,
select
the discovery you want to edit, and then click
Edit
.
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If you want to use an existing discovery to rediscover your
network,
select the discovery you want to use, click
Discover Now
,
and then complete the Network Sonar Results Wizard after dicovery
completes.
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If you want to import some or all devices found in a defined
discovery that you may not have already imported for
monitoring,
select a currently defined discovery, and then click
Import All Results
.
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