
4
Discovering Your Devices
| This chapter contains information about: | |
| ■ | Beginning Discovery |
| ■ | The Status Page |
| ■ | The Networks Page |
| ■ Adding a Device to a Network | |
| ■ | The Settings Page |
| ■ | Troubleshooting Discovery |
| ■ | Device Inventory |
| Beginning Discovery | |
| Discovery is the process of identifying the devices in your network and | |
| determining how these devices are connected. The discovered devices are | |
| displayed in the Devices page and added to a devices database maintained by | |
| HP TopTools to represent your network. HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches | |
| can discover network devices that have valid IP or IPX addresses. Such | |
| devices include: | |
| ■ HP's manageable hubs, bridges and switches that have valid IP or IPX | |
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| addresses. |
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| and support SNMP (for example, hubs and bridges from other vendors). |
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| These nodes may not be mapped or managed with HP TopTools. |
| ■ Devices that have IP or IPX addresses, even if they do not support SNMP. | |
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| (For example, IPX workstations and fileservers). |
| ■ Other devices, including HP JetDirect printers and plotters (IP or IPX). | |
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N o t e | Discovery is a | |
| To begin discovering the devices in your network, click on the Settings button | |
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| in the navigation frame and select Discovery from the menu. The Settings - | |
| Discovery page displays. |