About Discovery Actions for Network Integrity

Discovery actions discover data, typically from the network, and to save the discovered data in the Results Model. Discovery actions can access networks using various technologies and protocols.

Network Integrity users trigger discovery actions by running a discovery scan.

Discovery actions are made up of discovery and SNMP processors. See "Working with Network Integrity Processors" for more information.

Discovered data is saved in the Oracle Communications Information Model. Discovered data is flagged as having come from a network system. The Network Integrity UI displays and reports on discovered data.

Discovery actions can be configured with address handlers. If the discovery action is configured with an address handler, Network Integrity can validate the addresses configured in the scope of a discovery scan at run time. Invalid addresses are identified before running a scan that would otherwise end in failure. See "About Address Handlers for Network Integrity" for more information.

A discovery action must be configured with a valid result category. See "About Result Categories for Network Integrity" for more information.