IP Availability Manager discovery
In the transport domain,
IP Availability Manager
discovers Layer 2 (data-link) and Layer 3 (network) connectivity in multi-vendor, switched, and routed networks.
It discovers the network devices by sending them Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) and SNMP polls.IP Availability Manager
uses the discovered topology to model the network, and uses SNMP
polling and traps to diagnose and pinpoint the root cause of network failures. It exports the analysis results along with topology information to the Global Manager
, and exports device topology
and device-relevant status updates to .While performing its network discovery,
IP Availability Manager
may be customized
to populate a VoIP topology collection set with instances of discovered VoIP-enabled devices. IP Availability Manager
queries every discovered device in the managed environment for VoIP support.When importing device topology from
IP Availability Manager
, can be configured to import the discovered devices or just the
devices contained in the VoIP topology collection set.