Discovery Profile

Overview

Network discovery is a process to identify the devices present in an infrastructure. Discovery helps to build an inventory of devices present in an infrastructure that can further be provisioned to be configured as a monitor.

The monitors are categorized in AIOps based on the type of the infrastructure. Refer supported infrastructure types in Motadata AIOps to understand the type of infrastructure that can be monitored in Motadata AIOps. The discovery profile corresponding to each infrastructure type can be created to discover the respective device in Motadata AIOps to configure them as a Monitor.

Discovery Profile Screen

This screen is used to check details of the already existing discovery profiles, create a discovery profile, edit, and delete the existing ones. This interface can also be used to schedule discovery to run at a particular time or specified intervals in the future.

Navigation

Go to Menu, Select Settings . After that, Go to Network Discovery and select Discovery Profile. The discovery profile screen is displayed.

The discovery profile interface displays the following details:

Field	Description
Discovery Profile Name	The name of the discovery profile. This name is used to identify a discovery profile.
IP/Host/IP Range/CIDR/CSV	The address of the device to be discovered in one of the following formats: IP:The IP address of the device to be discovered. Host: The hostname of the device to be discovered. IP Range: A range of IP addresses in case multiple devices are discovered using the same profile. CIDR: A range of IP addresses using the CIDR notation if multiple devices need to be discovered using the same profile. CSV: The name of the CSV file used to import a range of addresses.
Type	Displays the type of device that needs to be discovered. The Type is based on the device type for which the corresponding credential profile is created.
Discovered Objects	The total number of entities discovered after the last successful execution of the discovery profile.
Status	The time and date of the last run of discovery using the corresponding discovery profile.
Scheduler	The scheduling details of a discovery that is scheduled to run in the future. Select to display the scheduler details. The icon is displayed to view the scheduler details when a discovery profile is scheduled to run in the future.
Actions	Select to display the permissible actions for the discovery profile: Edit Discovery Profile: This action allows you to change the details of an already existing discovery profile. Schedule Discovery Profile: This action allows you to schedule a discovery run at a future time period. Delete Discovery Profile: This action allows you to delete a discovery profile. Select to execute a re-run of a discovery profile.

How to Create a Discovery Profile?

The parameters to create a discovery profile differ based on the type of the device for which you are trying to create the profile. We will look in detail about creating a discovery profile while covering Addition of devices in Motadata AIOps for each of the following category:

1. Server & Apps
2. Network
3. Cloud
4. Service Check
5. Virtualization
6. Wireless

How to Schedule a Discovery Profile?

The discovery profile screen allows you to schedule the run of a discovery profile at a specified time in the future. The discovery can also be scheduled at pre-defined intervals in the future.

Select under the Actions column from the discovery profile screen. Then, select the Schedule Discovery Profile from the drop-down menu.

A pop-up is displayed which allows to schedule the discovery run at a pre-defined time.

The pop-up displays the following columns to be filled:

Field	Description
Scheduler Type	Select the interval in which the discovery is run, whether Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. Select Once if the discovery has to run only once.
Start Date	Select the date of the first run of discovery.
Hours	Select the time at which the discovery will run.
Notify via Email/Notify via SMS	The system allows notifying users about new service discovery through e-mail and SMS channels: Specify email addresses (comma separated) to trigger email notifications Specify mobile numbers (comma separated) to send SMS notifications
Auto Provision	Select the check-box to enable provisioning all the discovered devices for monitoring after the discovery run.

Select Reset to erase all the current field values, if required.

Select Schedule to schedule the discovery according to the specified parameters.

How to Edit a Discovery Profile?

Select from the Actions column against the discovery profile on the discovery profile screen.

Select Edit Discovery Profile from the drop-down menu. The interface to edit the parameters of a discovery profile is now displayed.

Make changes to the discovery profile as required.

Select Reset to erase all the current field values, if required.

Select Save and Exit if you have created the discovery profile for future use.

Select Save and Run if you want run the discovery immediately after creation.

You should see a success message once the information is saved.

How to Delete a Discovery Profile?

Select under the Actions column from the discovery profile screen. Then, select Delete Discovery Profile from the drop-down menu.

A pop-up to confirm the deletion of the discovery profile is displayed.

Select Yes to delete the discovery profile. The discovery profile is now deleted.

Select No if you don’t want to delete the discovery profile.