Using The Network Sonar Results Wizard - SolarWinds UDT Administrator's Manual

15. If you want the discovery you are currently defining to run on a regular schedule, select
either Custom or Daily as the discovery Frequency , as shown in the following steps:
Scheduled discovery profiles should not use IP address ranges that include nodes with
dynamically assigned IP addresses (DHCP).
Default Discovery Scheduling settings execute a single discovery of your network that starts
immediately, once you click Discover .
Results of scheduled discoveries are maintained on the Scheduled Discovery Results tab of
Network Discovery. For more information about managing scheduled discovery results, see
Managing Scheduled Discovery Results
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a. If you want to define a custom discovery schedule to perform the currently defined
discovery repeatedly in the future, select Custom and then provide the period of time, in
hours, between discoveries.
b. If you want your scheduled discovery to run once daily, select Daily, and then provide the
time at which you want your discovery to run every day, using the format HH:MM AM/PM.
16. If you do not want to run your network discovery at this time, select No, don't run now , and
then click Save or Schedule , depending on whether you have configured the discovery to run once or
on a schedule, respectively.
17. If you want your Network Sonar discovery to run now, click Discover to start your network
discovery.
Because some devices may serve as both routers and switches, the total number of Nodes
Discovered may be less than the sum of reported Routers Discovered plus reported Switches
Discovered.
After the Network Sonar Discovery Wizard completes the node discovery and imports results, if you click
FINISH , you are taken directly to Discovery Central.

Using the Network Sonar Results Wizard

The Network Sonar Discovery Results Wizard directs you through the selection of network devices for
monitoring, and it opens whenever discovery results are requested, either when the Network Sonar
Discovery Wizard completes or when either Import All Results or Import New Results is clicked for a
selected discovery. For more information, see "
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To work with the results of a Scheduled Discovery, see "
The following steps detail the selection of discovered objects for monitoring in SolarWinds UDT.
To select the results of a network discovery for monitoring in SolarWinds UDT:
1. On the Device Types to Import page, check the device types you want SolarWinds UDT to monitor,
and then click Next .
If you are not sure you want to monitor a specific device type, check the device type in
question. If, later, you do not want to monitor a selected device, simply delete the device using
Web Node Management. For more information, see "
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Network Discovery Using the Network Sonar Discovery
Managing Scheduled Discovery Results
Managing Devices in the Web Console
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