Cisco Systems 12000/10700 V3.1.1 manual IP Auto Discovery of the Cisco Chassis

Chapter 3 Getting Started

Deployment

Note This deployment procedure can be applied to the deployment of any of the generic objects although all of the steps may not apply to the particular generic object that you are deploying.

IP Auto Discovery of the Cisco Chassis

Auto discovery is the application that discovers existing Cisco 12000/10720 Routers, saving time and effort.

The auto discovery window can be opened from the Viewer or Discovery icon in the Launchpad. For further information, refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide.

The Auto discovery application has three mechanisms for discovering chassis:

•IP—ICMP pings are used to find chassis in a given IP address range. This finds which IP devices exist, but does not discover what kind of device they are.

•SNMP—SNMP get requests are used to find chassis in a given IP address range. Several SNMP community strings can be used so that equipment with different community strings can be discovered in the same discovery session. The SNMP information returned by devices is used to work out what kind of device has been found.

•IP and SNMP—ICMP pings are used to find chassis and then SNMP requests are used to interrogate the chassis to find out what kind of chassis they are. This is the default mechanism.

Auto discovery can discover chassis on more than one subnetwork using multi-hop discovery. It can be scheduled to run at preset times (the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide details how to set the schedules).

After the chassis is detected, an object representing the chassis is created and placed under the site from which auto discovery was launched. A map of the chassis is also created, as shown in Figure 3-21 on page 3-26.

Note If you wish to auto-discover a chassis that can be managed by Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager, then the Physical Path option must be enabled and an appropriate Physical Path (terminated with a Site) must be selected. Provided this is done, the auto discovery application will create a chassis below the selected Physical Path for each discovered chassis.

Cisco 12000/10700 v3.1.1 Router Manager User Guide

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