Cisco Systems 1105 manual Overview Discovery, Set Up Devices

Chapter 6 Performing Administrative Tasks

Using Discovery and Managing Devices

•Run Discovery Now—Run a one-time, immediate discovery (see Run Discovery Now, page 6-22)

You can also view details on the last 15 discoveries—See Viewing Inventory and Discovery Task History, page 6-27.

Related Topics

•Overview: Discovery, page 6-11

•Set Up Devices, page 6-12

Overview: Discovery

You can set up regularly scheduled discoveries and run one-time discoveries.

Before the WLSE can discover devices:

•You must configure discovery on the WLSE. See Schedule Discovery, page 6-20.

As an alternative to using Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) to run discovery, you can import devices from a file or from CiscoWorks2000. See Importing Devices, page 6-28.

•Devices must be properly configured for access by the WLSE. See Set Up Devices, page 6-12.

•Community strings must be entered on the WLSE. See Specify Community Strings, page 6-7).

Note Routers and switches are only discovered if they have properly configured access points attached to them.

Discovery proceeds according to the seed devices and CDP distance that you specify. The CDP distance determines the depth of the discovery. With a CDP distance of 1, only the immediate neighbors of the seed device are discovered. With a CDP distance of 2, devices A and B that are directly connected to the seed device are discovered, and the immediate neighbors of A and B are also discovered. You should set the CDP distance so that your entire wireless network is discovered.

After devices are discovered, you must move them to the managed state.

Unmanaged devices do not appear in WLSE displays.

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