Before you start

Before you begin the design of the discovery process in your deployment, read the comprehensive description of the discovery process in the
.
As explained in the
, the
IP Manager
uses ICMP and SNMP polling to collect data from the managed network topology, and uses the collected data to create instances of the managed devices and their internal components. During postprocessing, the
IP Availability Manager
imports the topology from the individual
IP Manager
s, merges the topologies, creates the connections between the managed devices, and establishes device relationships.