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Managing device discovery rules
A device discovery rule enables you to discover and add devices that are present within one or more IP address ranges. Creating
a device discovery rule helps you add multiple devices, and reduces the effort involved in adding each device individually.
Topics:
• Creating device discovery rule
• Viewing the device discovery rule overview pane
• Editing device discovery rule
• Deleting device discovery rule
• Running the discovery rule
Creating device discovery rule
Prerequisites
You must be logged in to SupportAssist Enterprise with elevated or administrative privileges. See Granting elevated or
administrative privileges to users.
About this task
By creating a discovery rule, you can discover and add devices based on IP address ranges. While you create the discovery rule,
you can select a Credential Profile that must be applied to the devices. After creating the device discovery rule, you can run the
rule immediately or based on a schedule to discover devices.
Steps
1. Point to Devices and click Manage Rules for Device Discovery.
The Manage Discovery Rules page is displayed.
2. Click Create Discovery Rule.
The Create Discovery Rule window is displayed.
3. Type a name for the discovery rule in the appropriate field.
4. From the Credential profile list, select a Credential Profile that contains the Account Credentials for the device types that
are present within the IP address ranges. To create a new credential profile, select Create New Profile and click Create.
To enter the profile details, follow steps 3 to 7 in Creating Credential Profile.
5. Type the IP address or IP address range of the devices that you want to discover. To add another IP address range, click
Add another range, and then type the IP address range of the devices.
NOTE:
You can add up to five different IP address ranges in the following format:
● 10.34.*.*
● 10.34.1-10.*
● 10.34.*.1-10
● 10.34.1-10.1-10
● 10.34.1.1/24
NOTE: Ensure that the IP address ranges that you have entered do not overlap with each other.
NOTE: For an IP address entered in Classless-Inter Domain Routing (CIDR) notation, for example 10.34.1.1/24, the
subnet mask entry is not considered.
6. Type the Subnet Mask of the specified IP address range in the appropriate field.
7. Select an option based on your preference:
● Run now — Discover the devices immediately.
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