Installation Guide

NMS300 Network Management System Application
Discover Resources Quick Start Guide36
Use a discovery profile to discover devices
on your network
A discovery profile gives you more control over the discovery process than the quick
discovery method but is a bit more complicated. The following sections describe how you can
use a discovery profile to discover devices:
1. Add a device credential
2. Add a discovery profile
3. Execute a discovery job
Add a device credential
During the discovery process, the application must log in to devices to obtain the information
to discover and manage the devices. A device credential includes the user name, password,
and SNMP community string that allows the application to log in to the device. The user
name and password are the same user information that you use to log in to the device to
perform system configuration. The application provides default device credentials for
discovery over HTTP, HTTPS, SNMP, and Telnet, and for discovery of the NETGEAR
FVS318G firewall over HTTPS.
You must configure the correct device credentials for any device that you want the application
to manage. If a device is not configured with its default credentials, do the following:
• If a device is not configured with its default admin user password, create two new
credentials in the application, one for Telnet and another for the HTTP protocol. These
credentials contain either the admin user credential or the credential of another user with
administrative privileges.
• If a device is not configured with its default SNMP community strings, create a credential
in the application for the SNMP protocol that contains the matching community strings.
To add a device credential:
1. Open a browser and connect to the application through the static IP address of the
NMS300 server.
For more information, see Log in to the application on page 17.
A login window opens.
2. Enter your user name and password.
The default administrator user name is admin and the default administrator password is
also admin.
3. Click the Sign In button.
The Network Summary page displays.