HP Network Direr Software Products manual Discovery Options Pane

122CHAPTER 4: DISCOVERING THE NETWORK

Discovery Options Pane

This step of the wizard allows you to restrict the type of devices that the discovery process will add to the map:

Figure 39 Discovery Options Pane

You may wish to do this for the following reasons:

■To filter out devices from the map that are not directly managed by yourself to ensure that your map represents only devices of interest to you.

■To ensure you do not reach the 3Com Network Director node limit during discovery.

If you leave the Use defaults from Tools > Options dialog option checked then the settings will be retrieved from the Tools > Options dialog box, Discovery tab. See “Options Dialog Box - Discovery Tab” on page 125 for a description of this tab.

By unchecking this option you can select one of the options as follows:

Only core devices This instructs the discovery process to discard any non-core devices. Core devices include.

■Managed switches, hubs and routers

■NBX Network Call Processors