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 NameofaDetailDiscoverypolicy.InthiscasethenecessaryinformationisreadfromaDetailDiscovery
policydefinedintheuserconsole.
 Fulldefinitionoftheneededdiscoverydetailsinaprotocol‐specificformat:
protocol-name :prop1=value1,prop2=value2,...
Thefollowingprotocolnamesaresupported:SSH,Telnet,SNMP,VI‐SDKandWMI.
Inaddition,allprotocolssupportsthe‐ timeoutparameterwithadefaultvalueof20000milliseconds.Theports
parameterissupportedforallprotocolsexceptWMIandVI‐SDK,withdefaultportsof22forSSH,23for
Telnet,
and161forSNMP.
Notethefollowing:
 Escapeddouble‐quotessurroundtheprotocolinformation—thesemustbeused.
 Unknownargumentsareignored.
 Omittedpasswordfieldsarerequestedbytheapplicationinteractivelywithoutechoing.
Defaultsearchscopefordifferentplatforms:
 Windows:
 Include:[/Program Files]
 Exclude: [/Documents and Settings, /WINDOWS]
 UNIX:
 Include:
[/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr,
/opt]

Exclude:
[/boot, /dev, /devices, /proc, /unix, /kernel, /platform, /cdrom, /CDROM, /sd_cdrom,
/SD_CDROM, /Mail, /mail, /nsmail, /vol, /lost+found, /media, /tmp, /mnt, /jumpstart,
/pcfs, /sys, /usr/kvm/sys, /stand, /var/news, /var/log, /var/run, /var/lock, /var/www,
/var/cache, /var/tmp, /etc/gconf]
snmpdump
ThesnmpwalkprogramisbundledwithLinux,whichrunsSNMPonagivenIPaddressandcreatesatextual
dumpofthewholetreeofresults.ThisprogramisoftenusedwhileextendinganddebuggingtheSNMP
portionoftheDetailDiscoveryknowledgebase.
AnewDetailDiscoveryfeatureallowsVMware
CustomerSupporttorecordacompletesnapshotoftheSNMP
responsesofanetworkhost,usingsnmpwalk.YoucanusetheresultingdumpfiletofixSNMPDetail
DiscoveryproblemsencounteredbyVMwareCustomerSupport.
Astandardizedscriptcalledsnmpdump.shisnowsuppliedwithADMtocreatethissnmpwalkdumpfile.
Location
/home/nlayers/Seneca/ActiveProbe/bin/snmpdump.sh
Usage
Runningsnmpdump.shonthecommandlineyieldsthefollowingusageinformation:
./snmpdump.sh host_ip output_file
ThefirstparameteristhehostIPtoquery.
Thesecondparameteristhenameofthefileinwhichtosavetheresults.