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Figure 119: WMI Configuration Added Successfully
Initiating a Network Discovery Scan
Seed devices are the initial IP addresses provided by the network administrator to start the network scan.
When you initiate a network discovery scan and specify the seed devices, network discovery uses SNMP to:
l Find any other devices connected to the seed devices.
l Profile the connected devices.
l W-ClearPass uses that information to detect more devices in the network. The network discovery scan will
proceed to the network depth specified by the Scan Depth parameter (described in Table 69 below).
l You can go to those devices and see their neighbor devices.
Running a network discovery scan on seed devices is a time- and resource-consuming operation. Depending on the
number of devices associated with the seed device, a complete scan can take more than an hour.
It is recommended that the network scan should be done outside of normal business hours or performed on a
W-ClearPass node that is not servicing core authentications.
To initiate a Network Discovery Scan:
1. Navigate to Monitoring > Profiler and Discovery > Network Discovery.
The Network Discovery page opens.
Figure 120: Network Discovery Page
2. Click Start Network Discovery Scan.
The Initiate Scan dialog opens.