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:
  1. Import initial device topology from
    IP Availability Manager
    .
  2. Probe each managed device for VoIP topology information and relationships.
  3. Post-processing the discovery information.
  4. Retrieval of additional topology related to IP phones from
    IP Availability Manager
    .