Discovery jobs

Configure Discovery job to identify various devices within an organization, including Servers, Networks, Links, Printers, and Laptops. Once discovered, these devices are saved in their respective modules for easy access and management.

To start the Discovery job activity, you have to adopt the following steps as shown in the illustration below.

User persona: Application Designer

Configure Discovery Job

To configure the Discovery job, perform the following steps:

1.  Navigate to Home > Analyst > Discovery.Figure: Discovery
   
   
2.  Click Discovery, and the following page is displayed.Figure: User Dashboard
   
   
3.  Navigate to Discovery on the left panel and the page appears as shown below.Figure: Details and Jobs
   
   
4. Click Discovered Jobs and the following page is displayed. The list of configured jobs, and the status of jobs that have been completed, not started or already completed are displayed.Figure: Discovery jobs
   
   
5. On the Discovery job page, click New on the panel.
   Figure: Configure job details
   
   
6. Select the Tenant and fill in the required details. For more information about the fields and icons on the Discovery job page, see Field Description.
   
   Field Description

   Field	Description
   Discovery From (Proxy)	If you select Proxy Server in the Monitoring Source field, the Discovery From (Proxy) field is displayed. Select the Proxy device from the list to discover devices from the selected proxy server.
   Job Name	Type in the job name that will perform the Common Discovery.
   Run As User DOMAIN\username	Type the user domain or user name.
   Password	Specify the password for the field.
   Re-enter Password	Re-enter the password for the field.
   Notify Once Complete	If selected, after completing the discovery task an e-mail notification is sent to the Administrator.
   Subnet
   Type	Select the Type as Subnet.
   Ping Protocol	The following protocols are available to select: Figure: Ping Protocol ICMP: Bidirectional Ping is required from the Proxy to all the targeted systems and server to the Proxy. TCP/UDP: Port 7 is used for checking the reachability of the system IP address. If there is any environment restriction on using ICMP-based ping, TCP Ping can be leveraged.
   Subnet From	Type in the subnet numbers.
   Subnet To	Type in the subnet numbers.
   Enable Nmap Discovery	If toggle is enabled,Nmap Discovery will be enabled. If Nmap is not enabled, Summit uses standard discovery functionality.
   Consider all IP Addresses till the last octet of the Subnet To	If toggle is enabled,, it includes a range of IP addresses available within a specific subnet. For example, if you have an IP address like "192.168.1.0/24," the "24" indicates that the first three octets (192.168.1) are used for the network portion, and the remaining fourth octet (0) is available for assigning host addresses within that subnet. The range of usable IP addresses, in this case, would be from "192.168.1.1" to "192.168.1.254," leaving "192.168.1.0" as the network address and "192.168.1.255" as the broadcast address.
   Extended Discovery	The following protocols are available to select: Figure: Protocols SNMP: Select the SNMP check box and the SNMP version from drop-down list. Specify the SNMP strings and the timeout (in seconds) and if SNMP check box is selected, then SNMP Version has to be specified. Select the SNMP version from the list: SNMPV1, SNMPV2c, SNMP V3 If SNMPV3 is selected, the AuthType field is displayed. Select the Authentication Type from the list: AuthNoPriv: If selected you have to specify the authentication details. You have to select the SNMP user and authentication mode( SHA or MD5) AuthPriv: If selected you have to specify the SNMP user, authentication mode, privilege password, and privilege protocol. NoAuthNoPriv: If selected authentication and privilege is not applicable. You have to select the SNMP user from the list. You can provide ping time out for each protocol. Select any one monitoring protocol option. Type in the respective protocol details, as required. WMI: Select the WMI check box, the WMI user from the drop-down list, and specify the timeout in seconds. Note The WMI protocol is used to mainly monitor the event status that is configured in the server. New fields Software Discovery, Advanced Software Discovery, and Additional Discovery check boxes are populated when you select WMI protocol. SSH: Select the SSH check box and the SSH user from the drop-down list, Specify the SSH Port No. and the timeout (in seconds). Select the SSH check box and SNMP version.
   Set Time For	Specify the ping retry and ping timeout (in microseconds).
   Thread Timeout	It is required when the multi-threaded Discovery is performed. If a thread is not discovered in one attempt, the application retries the Discovery attempt until the time (in seconds) specified in this field. If the respective thread is not discovered within the specified time, a thread timeout error message is displayed.

7. Click Next to schedule the Discovery job.
   Figure: Schedule the Discovery job
   Here you can specify the Schedule Type, Schedule Time and Time Zone.
   
   
8. Click Submit to save the Discovery job.