Discovery-Adding Devices; Discovery-Automatically Finding Devices - Black Box BOXILLA BXAMGR User Manual

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CHAPTER 6: DISCOVERY—ADDING DEVICES

The process of adding devices to Boxilla to manage is known as discovery. The discovery process can be automatic

or can be manual.

6.1 DISCOVERY—AUTOMATICALLY FINDING DEVICES

Boxilla uses Black Box's discovery protocol to automatically find devices to be managed on the network. This discovery protocol

can span across subnets. To allow Black Box's InvisaPC automatic discovery protocol to operate across subnets, multicast routing

should be enabled in the routers in the network. Black Box's discovery protocol is not required for InvisaPC systems to operate

but it is recommended to enable Boxilla to search for devices across multiple subnets. If the InvisaPC discovery protocol is not

enabled, i.e. routers do not have multicast routing enabled, the administrator will have to manually add in devices not on its subnet,

i.e. add in each device individually by its IP address.

To start adding devices to Boxilla, click on the Discovery button on the main menu. The Discovery page is displayed as shown

in Figure 17. The example page already has some devices "discovered." The devices are listed in a table as shown in Figure 17.

This table shows all devices "discovered" automatically or manually added. To discover devices automatically, click

on the "discover" button on the page. This causes the Black Box Discovery protocol to be run where a "discovery" packet

is broadcasted to network and devices respond to Boxilla by sending a UDP unicast back to Boxilla. See Appendix B: Overview

of Boxilla and InvisaPC Network Protocols for more details on the actual protocol sequence.

FIGURE 17. DISCOVERY PAGE

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