Discovery features overview

Overview and fast onboarding

Different types of granular discoveries let the user easily filter/select services and hosts that are to be discovered and monitored.

• Network Topology Discovery: Layer 2/3 discovery that creates comprehensive network topology maps.

• Host/Device Discovery: scans any network, subnet, or IP address.

• VMware Discovery: scans VMware environment (Datacenter, Clusters, Hosts, Datastores, VMs, NICs).

• Cisco Meraki: discovers cloud Cisco Meraki infrastructures (APs and Switches)

Discovery results are matched with preconfigured monitoring templates to automate monitoring configuration.

Quick start configuration

New Discovery Job

To add a new Discovery Job:

• go to Configuration -> Hosts -> Discovery Jobs
• click on +ADD JOB
• select the desired discovery type:
  • Host Discovery
  • Network Topology Discovery
  • VMware Discovery
  • Meraki Job Wizard

note

it could be that Host Discovery, VMware Discovery and Cisco Meraki are grayed out

• Host Discovery: download Linux SNMP plugin from Plugin Store and install it
• VMware Discovery: download VMware vCenter and vSAN (optional) plugins from Plugin Store and install them
• Cisco Meraki: download Cisco Meraki Cloud Controller plugin from Plugin Store and install it

Discovery Jobs panel shows all the jobs that have been created.

Each job has the following attributes: status, name, type (VMWARE, NEDI, NETWORK, MERAKI), start time, end time, duration, new items and review items. Job status can be:

• New: new discovery job.
• Running: the job execution is in progress, and the job can’t be modified until it completes.
• Failed: job didn’t complete correctly. To see the reason why it failed, hover the mouse over the F button. A failed job has to be fixed/modified before it can be re-launched.
• Finished: the job completed successfully and its results can be viewed.

The job can now be:

• Restarted
• Modified
• Duplicated
• Deleted