How does the discovery process use the device type list? How does the discovery process use the device type list?
The discovery process used by autoMap™ will involve browsing mib-2 on any devices it finds during its discovery, so if the devices support mib-2 we will take the asset information from there – the System and Interfaces branch of the mib-2 tree for example provide information describing the system and the port connections. The device list is used to identify a device. It contains the MIB-2 system group sysObjectId. This is like a vendor’s model number for a device. The discovery engine can identify the device using this, to give the device: • a product name e.g. Catalyst 2650 • a vendor name e.g. Cisco • and we then can assign a type to it e.g., switch. All SNMP agents support this variable. The device type list contains everything the discovery engine can currently identify. A separate process “Network Object Procedures” allows custom procedures to be applied to devices, for example to find out where in the vendor part of the SNMP MIB tree to get serial numbers for a device. Codima can
