Manual Discovery
Manual Discovery is a special configuration interface for the middle ground between full auto-discovery with profiles and manually entering all the device details. It is logically equivalent to creating a new discovery profile, populating it with a single IP, and running the Device Auto Discovery job on just that profile. Users can simply enter an IP address or DNS name and Unified Assurance will run the Device Auto Discovery application on the server specified using a SOAP request. If the device is pingable, it will be discovered, added to the device catalog, and have its basic device information populated. Manual Discovery will place the device in the device zone, group, shard, etc, set for the "Device Auto Discovery" application that is used ("Default First Zone" by default).
Refer to the Grid Details section below for details on how to interact with the grid.
This user interface calls REST methods from api/discovery/discover.
The UI path for this interface is Configuration -> Device Discovery -> Manual Discovery.
Grid Details
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Run on Server - Which Unified Assurance Broker should run the discovery.
Note:
Only servers that have an instance of the DeviceAutoDiscovery binary with the "Status" set to "Enabled" will be listed here, but the "Scheduled" option for the job can be unchecked so it does not start automatically. If no jobs are enabled, an error will be returned. See the Jobs UI for additional information.
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Discover Jobs - After a "Run on Server" selection is made, this will show the different jobs that could be used for discovery.
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Devices (DNS/IP) - The FQDN or IP addresses for the device to be discovered.
Note:
You can manually discover multiple devices at once, by comma-separating the IPs/DNS names (for example,
192.0.2.2,198.51.100.3,203.0.113.4).