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NCM Device Discovery

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 device discovery flow is same as the Network Discovery Settings.

  1. You create a credential profile.
  2. You create a discovery profile.
  3. You run the discovery.
  4. You provision the monitors.

However, please take care of following prerequisites:

  • Plugins: SSH NCM Collector, Telnet NCM Collector
  • NCM engine should be ON from the back end
  • NCM will discover only those SNMP devices that allow remote configuration
  • In ncm-conf.yml (back end), provide your system IP.

NCM Discovery Settings

NCM Discovery Settings