Discovery process overview

During the discovery process,
automatically discovers the VoIP topology in the managed environment. Upon discovering the topology,
builds a data model in its repository representing the discovered topology objects and their relationships.
discovers VoIP-specific objects based on the device topology initially imported from the
IP Availability Manager
source or sources. The device topology consists of device objects and device containment objects.
Upon sending SNMP polls, SOAP requests, and CLI commands (Nortel only) to the devices to discover the VoIP topology,
builds the discovered topology in its repository and relates the discovered VoIP topology to the device topology discovered by
IP Availability Manager
.