Using Discovery - Extreme Networks Ridgeline Guide Manual

Using Discovery

When you first install Ridgeline, the device inventory is empty. The easiest way to populate the
inventory database is to use the Discovery feature (select New > Discover device from the File menu)
to automatically detect the devices on your network. With Discovery you can:
Search for devices by specific IP addresses or ranges of IP address, including using wildcard search
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parameters to specify the IP address sets you want to query.
Limit your search to Extreme devices only, or include all discovered MIB-2 devices regardless of
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manufacturer
Specify a search range using CIDR format
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Enable the discovery to use SNMPv3 in its search
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Figure 7 shows an example of a discovery specification. You can add multiple address range
specifications to be executed in a single discovery operation.
Figure 7: Discovering devices to add to the Ridgeline inventory database
Note that you must provide the SNMP read community string to enable Ridgeline to get information
from the devices it finds. If your devices do not all use the same read community string, you will need
to add each set of devices as a separate specification, as shown in the example.
When you run the discovery, Ridgeline returns a list of all the devices it has found within the
parameters you provided, as shown in
It does not automatically add these devices to the Ridgeline inventory; you must select and add the
devices either individually or in groups.
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