Discovery process details
During the discovery process, uses instances of certain
VMware Smart Assurance
ICIM classes to create within its repository a data model representation of the discovered VoIP objects. The data models represent the VoIP objects,
their relationships, and their logical connections.Discovery
flow for VoIP Availability Manager identifies the phases of discovery for adding VoIP objects to the repository.
Discovery
flow for VoIP Availability Manager

The discovery phases are:
- Import initial device topology fromIP Availability Manager.
- Probe each managed device for VoIP topology information and relationships.
- Post-processing the discovery information.
- Retrieval of additional topology related to IP phones fromIP Availability Manager.