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Discovering Your Devices

This chapter contains information about:

■ Beginning Discovery

■ The Status Page

■ The Networks Page

■ Adding a Device to a Network

■ The Settings Page

■ Troubleshooting Discovery

■ Device Inventory

Beginning Discovery

Discovery is the process of identifying the devices in your network and

determining how these devices are connected. The discovered devices are

displayed in the Devices page and added to a devices database maintained by

HP TopTools to represent your network. HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches

can discover network devices that have valid IP or IPX addresses. Such

devices include:

■ HP's manageable hubs, bridges and switches that have valid IP or IPX

addresses.

■ Third-party (“multivendor”) devices that have valid IP or IPX addresses

and support SNMP (for example, hubs and bridges from other vendors).

These nodes may not be mapped or managed with HP TopTools.

■ Devices that have IP or IPX addresses, even if they do not support SNMP.

(For example, IPX workstations and fileservers).

■ Other devices, including HP JetDirect printers and plotters (IP or IPX).

Note Discovery is a resource-intensive process and may take some time.

To begin discovering the devices in your network, click on the Settings button

in the navigation frame and select Discovery from the menu. The Settings -

Discovery page displays.

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