Chapter 4      Managing Devices

Device Management

Step 2

Select a filter value, then click Filter.

Only the devices, services, interfaces you have selected will appear.

Adding Devices

There are two ways that you can add devices for Hosting Solution Engine 

monitoring: manually and by discovery using Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP). 

Because CDP impacts performance, it is turned off by default. If you choose to 

leave CDP off or if the device you want to manage does not support CDP, you 

must add the devices manually.

If your device supports CDP, you can add this 

seed

 device (or set of seed devices 

and its CDP enabled device neighbors are discovered during the discovery 

process. 

The following do not support CDP and must be added as seed devices:

LocalDirector

PIX Firewall

Content Services Switch

Note

By default, the Hosting Solution Engine's external IP address will appear as a 

seed. 

You can specify multiple 

seed

 devices to:

Discover  disconnected  networks if you want to discover devices across 

links on which you have disabled CDP or where the devices are outside the 

firewall.

Discover devices that are not CDP enabled.

You can add devices by:

Adding Seed Devices, page 4 6

or

Running Device Discovery, page 4 25

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