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146 | Monitoring Dell Networking W-ClearPass Policy Manager 6.6 | User Guide
Field Action/Description
IP Subnets/ IP
Addresses
1. Enter either one or more IPsubnets or one or more IPaddresses. For multiple entries,
separate multiple IP addresses with commas.
NOTE: The WMI configuration can be for a single IP address or a subnet. These credentials are
used when a WMI scan is initiated.
Domain 2. Enter the name of the Windows domain for logging into the device(s) that you are scanning.
Username 3. Enter the username for the device or subnet specified.
Password 4. Enter the password for the device or subnet specified.
Description 5. Optionally, enter a description of this SNMP configuration (recommended).
Table 60: WMI Configuration Parameters
6. Repeat this procedure for additional entries if needed.
7. When finished, click Save.
You return to the Profile Settings page, where you can see that the WMI configuration has been added
successfully (see Figure 110).
Figure 110: 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 61 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: