HP Networking TopTool Products manual Discovering Your Devices, Beginning Discovery

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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
		addresses.
	■ Third-party (“multivendor”) devices that have valid IP or IPX addresses
		and support SNMP (for example, hubs and bridges from other vendors).
		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.
		(For example, IPX workstations and fileservers).
	■ Other devices, including HP JetDirect printers and plotters (IP or IPX).
N o t e	Discovery is a resource-intensive process and may take some time.
	To begin discovering the devices in your network, click on the Settings button
	in the navigation frame and select Discovery from the menu. The Settings -
	Discovery page displays.