Creating Your Device Inventory; Using Discovery - Extreme Networks EPICenter 7.1 Getting Started Manual

Creating Your Device Inventory

The first step in using EPICenter is to collect information about the devices
in the network to populate the EPICenter database. EPICenter provides a
discovery function that can automatically find and retrieve information
about the devices on your network. You can also add devices to the
database individually.

Using Discovery

When you first install EPICenter, 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:
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Search for devices by specific IP addresses or ranges of IP address,
including using wildcard search parameters to specify the IP address
sets you want to query.
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Limit your search to Extreme Networks devices only, or include all
discovered MIB-2 devices regardless of manufacturer.
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Specify a search range using CIDR format.
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Enable the discovery to use SNMPv3 in its search.
Figure 6 on page 38 shows an example of a discovery specification. You can
add multiple address range specifications to be executed in a single
discovery operation.
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