Dell DPND-523-EN12 manual How to use Network Property Groups, Property Group Purpose

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How to use Network Property Groups

Some of the property groups cause Network Discovery to give you more data than others, but in doing so they also generate more traffic on the network and cause more load on the device being monitored. It can be a trade-off, a balance between efficiency and performance. You might choose to do less discovery on some parts of the network and more on others.

Property Group	Purpose
global	The starting point, assigned to the
	0–255 range. Almost completely set to
	off, but does allow IP addresses.
Active discovery	Ping, poll, table read. Find devices and
	information about them to add to
	database.
Resource manage	The most active of the Network Property
	Groups. Provides disk, CPU, and memory
	information from servers, printers or
	UPSs.
Unmanaged router	In this Property Group, Accumulate IP
	addresses is set to “on”. For routers that
	do not have SNMP management
	enabled.
DHCP Server	This Property Group has Force ARP
	table read set to “on”.
	For servers providing Dynamic Host
	Configuration Protocol (DHCP) services,
	or for any other device (except routers)
	with a large ARP cache.

Property Group	Purpose
Do not allow discovery	For ranges that you do not want
	Network Discovery to ping and poll.
Do not resource manage	Use it as a “child” range of a Resource
	Manage range.

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