How do I Create Unified Discovery Rules?

In this step you will create a discovery rule, which is a policy object that contains a list of node IP addresses and the required communication protocols for each node. A “unified” discovery rule is the unity of an NSP discovery rule and an NFM-P discovery rule, for cases where Enterprise NSP is being installed on a network that includes NFM-P.

See the NSP Device Management Guide for more information about creating the policy types (ping, mediation) described here.


1	Click + CREATE UNIFIED DISCOVERY RULE. The Create Unified Discovery Rule window opens.
2	Fill in the required information for the General part of the configuration form: Rule Name—the displayed name for the discovery rule that identifies it in lists and when selecting the rule from other forms. Description—notable information about the discovery rule, if required. For example, the geographic area covered by the discovery rule. Network Scan Interval (min)—the number of minutes between automatic scans of the IP addresses in the discovery rule. Admin State—the administrative state of a policy or network object determines whether it is activated, where Up is “on”, and Down is “off”.
3	Fill in the required information for the Protocols and Policies part of the configuration form. In this step, you are selecting the First Discovery Protocol, and up to three other protocols if needed. Node types require a specific communication protocol. Depending on the protocol selections you made, additional panels are displayed in the window. Your options are the following: SNMP NETCONF gRPC CLI
4	Under Select Mediation Policies, click the field to select a mediation policy and click SELECT. A mediation policy specifies various settings for communication over the selected protocol, and must match the protocols you specified in the previous step. In the window to select a mediation policy, you can click + NEW, if needed, which opens a new tab to create a policy. a mediation policy.
5	Under Select Reachability Policies, click the field to select at least one type of ping policy and click SELECT. You can choose a policy for the protocol type, or a generic ping policy. A ping policy specifies how NSP connects to a node to determine reachability, that is, whether the node is actively responding to a ping request. Whether a node is reachable or not is a key criteria of node health. In the window to select a ping policy, you can click + NEW, if needed, which opens a new tab to create a policy.
6	Under Associate Classic Discovery Rule, you can select an existing NFM-P discovery rule (referred to as a “classic” discovery rule) to make this a unified discovery rule. The NSP will attempt to discover all nodes that are currently being managed by the NFM-P instance that is using this classic discovery rule. In the window to select a classic rule, you can click + NEW, if needed, which opens a new tab to create a new classic discovery rule.
7	Under Discovery IP Ranges, click + ADD for “Included IP Addresses”. The Add Included IP Addresses window opens.
8	Fill in the required information for the following: IP Address—the IP address for the node in IPv4 or IPv6 format. Mask Bits—the mask bits of the IP address, with a valid range of 24-32 for IPv4 and 120-128 for IPv6. If required, enable Create Another to queue up another IP address, and click ADD. The IP address that you entered is displayed in the list of included IP addresses.
9	If you need to exclude IP addresses, under Discovery IP Ranges, click + ADD for “Excluded IP Addresses”. Fill in the required information in the same manner as the previous step.
10	Click CREATE. The discovery rule is displayed in the list of discovery rules.
11	When you are finished this step, click CONTINUE to proceed to the next step. End of steps

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