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Discovery is the act of detecting something new. In the network management industry, discovery designates a process of finding new network devices, detecting services and applications running on them, adding and configuring them for monitoring and management.
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Particularly, a procedure of discovery is described in Discovery Process section.
From a practical point of view, discovery supplements, extends and automates tedious task of manual (one-by-one) device addition and configuration. It helps to form a basis of monitoring infrastructure, and then maintain it in a relevant state. More specifically, device discovery can be used to accomplish several network management tasks:
| • | Single-device discovery that can be useful when there's a single device you want to add and configure for monitoring. |
| • | Automatically discover and add devices that uncover themselves by sending notifications of some kind (e.g. Syslog message, or SNMP traps) to AggreGate server. |
In AggreGate Network Manager discovery is available via Network Device Discovery and Discover Single Device actions in Devices (users.admin.devices) context, and can be invoked through certain user-interface tools and hooks (like context menus, jobs, favourite items, etc.) as described in Using Discovery section.
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