Chapter 9: Device discovery


Discovering devices using the NFM-P

Overview

Device SNMP management

Device management states

Using multiple management interfaces

Post-discovery actions on discovered NEs

Configuring SSH security on devices

Mediation and event notification policies

NE resynchronization

Server resource management

Workflow for device discovery

Procedures for device discovery

To enable SNMPv3 management of a device

To enable SNMPv3 management and discover an 1830 VWM device

To configure the AIM mediation and discovery for management of the VSR-I

To enable or disable SNMP streaming on an NE

To verify that SSH2 is enabled on a device

To enable SSH host key persistence on a device

To configure device mediation

To assign an event notification policy to an NE

To configure a management network

To configure an additional management interface on a main server

To configure an additional management interface on an auxiliary server

To configure a post-discovery action

To configure a discovery rule

To enable, disable, or delete a discovery rule

To view the post-discovery action execution status

To manage a post-discovery action failure on an NE

To manage, suspend, or unmanage a device

To associate a device with a discovery rule

To change from SNMPv2 to SNMPv3 management of a device

To switch from non-secure to secure mediation

To specify which management address the NFM-P uses to remanage a device

To rescan the network for a device according to a discovery rule

To partially or fully resynchronize NEs with the NFM-P database

To manually accept a mismatched SSH host key

To view the SSH2 host keys to identify active and mismatched keys

To list and save SNMP MIB information

To delete a device from the managed network