The Discovery Scope window provides
the option of a scoped or unscoped discovery.
About this task
To choose a scoped or unscoped discovery, complete these steps.Restriction: Network Manager does not support the
IPv4–mapped IPv6 format and expects all IPv6 addresses to be in standard colon-separated IPv6
format. For example, Network Manager
does not support an IPv4–mapped IPv6 address such as ::ffff:192.0.2.128. Instead
enter this address as ::ffff:c000:280 (standard colon-separated IPv6
format).
Procedure
- Select Scoped or Unscoped.
- Scoped
- A scoped discovery restricts the discovery to a certain part of
your network. To specify a scoped discovery, tell the wizard which
area of the network to restrict the discovery to, and assign IP addresses
or subnets as seeds to ping to begin the discovery.
- Unscoped
- An unscoped discovery attempts to discover your entire network.
However, you still need to assign IP addresses or subnets as seeds
to ping to begin the discovery.
Attention: If there are
routes out of your network to the Internet, an unscoped discovery
will find these routes and start to discover parts of the Internet.
- If you selected Scoped, specify which area of the
network to which to restrict the discovery.
Specify
one or more subnets to use for both scoping and seeding by clicking
New and
typing an IP address and a netmask.
Restriction: For performance
reasons, only IPV4 addresses will be pinged. To ping IPV6 addresses
use the Seed tab in the Discovery Configuration GUI.
- If you selected the Unscoped option, specify the
seeds to use for your unscoped discovery.
Click New… and
specify one or more IP addresses.