Let’s see what’s out there in my network
You must have faced the situation where you had no idea what devices were in your network or data center. Maybe you even suspected that new devices were added or removed without your knowledge and consent…
In telecom, data center and complex enterprise environments, a network is always changing. Managing proper inventory is difficult regardless of how precise internal change management processes are and how strict their execution is.
To manage your network efficiently, you must have resource inventory with exact information about devices and relevant inventory data.
Scan the whole network and fetch actual inventory data
The best approach to address this challenging situation is to implement automated discovery processes that will fetch actual physical and logical information from the network and data center and store the data in your network resource inventory.
The UMBOSS Automatic Discovery and Reconciliation Management (ADM) module specializes in the discovery of active network components and topologies as well as other logical resources provisioned on the devices. It is crucial when network inventory is being newly established and initial network data should be stored. Later it must be regularly updated.
Device discovery is a process through which ADM connects to a particular network component and gets key information about the device as well as its internal components: vendor, product and serial number, chassis, slot, motherboard, port, SFP, etc. It also fetches logical resources and combines them to discover network topologies.
ADM uses different protocols to perform the task (SNMP, Telent, SSH, HTTP, etc.) but it can also be configured to connect to element managers (EMS) and fetch corresponding data. ADM can connect to EMSs using protocols like REST, SOAP, CORBA, etc. It uses various network protocol data to discover different topologies (BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, L2, L3, etc.).
Diagram showing how the UMBOSS Automatic Discovery and Reconciliation module works
Features of UMBOSS Automatic Discovery and Reconciliation
Benefits of automatic discovery are clear
