📄️ Overview
Motadata communicates with Network Configuration Manager (NCM) devices using the NCM discovery settings. Similar to Network Discovery Settings, Motadata uses discovery profile for devices information and credential profile to validate the devices. On successful discovery, Motadata will ask you to provision the devices. With device provisioning, you select only those devices that you want to manage in the Motadata. The provisioned devices appear only in the NCM menu and not in the Monitors menu. The provisioned devices also consumes the license.
📄️ NCM Credential Profile
The credential profile contains the security parameters to authenticate the access of Motadata to the device. You can create a credential profile first and use it with a device type later. Also, you can also create a new credential profile while creating the discovery profile. There is no difference.
📄️ NCM Device Discovery
Discovery profile contains information about the NCM devices that should be discovered. The page shows you all the NCM discovery profiles. Motadata communicates with NCM devices in your network using these discovery profile.
📄️ Run NCM Discovery
Run discover profile finds the devices in the network based on the profile settings. To run a discovery profile:
📄️ Device Provision
1. Select the monitors you want to provision.