What is a unified discovery rule?

Unified discovery rules

A unified discovery rule can be used to discover model-driven and classic devices in specified IP address ranges, so that you can manage them in NSP.

The discovery rule provides the protocols and policies required to discover model-driven devices.

To use the unified discovery rule to discover classic devices, you must associate a classic discovery rule. The classic discovery rule contains the mediation and reachability policy information required to discover and manage the classic devices in the specified IP address ranges.

When the unified discovery rule scans the network, it performs discovery using both MDM and classic:

Note: NSP does not support IP address overlap in discovery rules: an IP address cannot be included in more than one discovery rule, and a host IP address cannot be included in a discovery rule if the rule includes a subnet the host IP address is in.

Select a discovery rule in the Device Discovery, Unified Discovery Rules view to see rule components, discovered NEs and any errors that occurred during discovery.

Note: Nokia AIM devices serve as controllers for MAG-c-a2 appliances. You can discover an AIM using a unified discovery rule.