Enabling Cisco Discovery Protocol (Cdp); Assigning Devices To Awms From Aps/Devices > New Page - Dell PowerConnect W-Airwave User Manual

Enabling Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)

CDP uses the polling interval configured for each individual switch or router on the Groups > List page. AWMS
requires read-only access to a router or switch for all subnets that contain wired or wireless devices. As AWMS
adds each router or switch, AWMS pings that device and initiates a connection using SNMP with the specified
community string. This verifies that the proper IP address and community string have been provided.
Assigning Devices to AWMS from APs/Devices > New Page
Once you have discovered devices on your network, you must add these devices to a group. To configure a new
group, refer to
group, you must specify whether the device is to be placed in Manage read/write or Monitor only mode.
If you place the device in Manage read/write mode, AWMS compares the device's current configuration settings
with the Group configuration settings and automatically updates the device's configuration to match the Group
policy.
If you place the device in Monitor read only mode, AWMS compares the current configuration with the policy,
and displays any discrepancies on the APs/Devices > Audit page, but does not change the configuration of the
device.
Aruba recommends putting devices in Monitor only mode when they are added to a newly established Group.
This avoids overwriting any important existing configuration settings.
Once you have added several devices to the Group, and verified that no unexpected or undesired configuration
changes will be made to the devices, you can begin to put the devices in Manage read/write mode using the APs/
Devices > Manage or the Modify these devices link on any list page.
Perform the following steps to add a newly discovered device to a group:
1. Browse to the APs/Devices > New page. The APs/Devices > New page displays all newly discovered devices,
the related controller, when known, and the device vendor, model, MAC Address, IP Address, and the date/
time of discovery.
134 | Discovering, Adding, and Managing Devices
"Configuring and Using Device Groups in AWMS" on
Figure 82 illustrates this page.
page 79. When you add a device to a
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