Overview (Initiating Discovery and Topology Split)

A full discovery with full topology split should be used only for an initial discovery or after a major network redesign. Thereafter, incremental discovery with incremental topology split should be used for normal topology updates.
An initial full discovery with full topology split can take a long time to complete. It consists of the time that the
takes to discover the topology in the managed IP network
plus
the time that the topology-split algorithm takes to assign the discovered devices to the
IP Availability Manager
s
plus
the time that the
IP Availability Manager
s take to discovery the devices that have been assigned to them. While discoveries on the
IP Availability Manager
s are in progress, the
IP Availability Manager
s cannot monitor the network.