Device Discovery Methods
Select the type of discovery you want WhatsUp
Gold to perform on your network.
- (available in the WhatsUp
Gold console). WhatsUp Gold discovers devices by reading SNMP
information on your network. This scan type uses an SNMP enabled
router to identify the devices in your network and also identifies
subnetworks within your network. The Device Discovery wizard
displays additional options for scanning with SNMP.
- . WhatsUp Gold scans a range of IP addresses and finds
the devices that respond to a message sent via the Internet Control
Message Protocol (ICMP). The Discover
Devices wizard will prompt you to enter a range of the IP addresses
in your network.
- (available in the WhatsUp Gold console).
Scanning a Network Neighborhood creates a list of devices by
scanning the Windows network to which your computer is connected,
and finding the other systems on the network.
- (available in the WhatsUp Gold console). WhatsUp
Gold imports devices from a host file. (Note that the default file
may be empty unless you have specifically added devices to
it.)
: For
all discovery methods, you can choose to resolve device types using
SNMP.
All devices found during these scans will be
shown to you before being added to the database. Later in this
wizard, you will be able to select the devices you want to monitor
from the possible devices found.