Discovery

Discovery is the process to query and update information about the devices that are in SevOne NMS. Device discovery creates new objects in SevOne NMS, updates existing objects, and ultimately deactivates and deletes unused objects.

• Manual Discovery - The Manual Discovery process runs every two minutes to scan the devices in SevOne NMS that you mark for discovery.
• Automatic Discovery - The Automatic Discovery process tests the various plugins/technologies you configure for each device and updates the device's current state.

You define the Automatic Discovery time for each peer in the cluster on the Cluster Manager > Peer Settings tab.

1. Click the Run the Automatic Discovery daily at drop-down and select the time to run the Automatic Discovery process.
2. Click the second drop-down and select the time zone.

The rest of the page enables you to enter the email server information for SevOne NMS to use to notify users of alerts and to send reports to users. You can update these settings on the Cluster Manager > Cluster Settings tab > Email subtab.

1. In the Email Server field, enter the hostname or IP address of the SMTP email server for SevOne NMS to use to send emails.
2. In the Username field, enter the user name SevOne NMS needs to authenticate onto the email server.
3. In the Password field, enter the password SevOne NMS needs to authenticate onto the email server.
4. Click the Connection Security drop-down and select a connection security protocol.
5. In the Port field, enter the port on the email server for SevOne NMS to use.
6. In the Test Email Address field, enter the email address to which you want to send a test email.
7. Click Send Test Email to send a test email to the address you enter in the previous step.
8. Click Next.