About discovery filters
The purpose of discovery filters is to control or limit which systems
are added to the discovery process during autodiscovery. Appropriate
discovery filtering ensures that autodiscovery is efficient.
You use discovery filters to ensure that certain network-accessible
systems that are not intended for management by the
IP Manager
are not discovered.
For example, an Internet service provider (ISP) might want to discover
a router and its interfaces, but not the systems that are connected
to the router on the ISP’s client side. Configuring the appropriate
discovery filters will enforce this discovery restriction.Seed
systems in a seed file, or seed systems that are specified by using
the
Add Agent
command, are not subject to the
discovery filters. Only the systems that are found by the autodiscovery’s
probing of the seed systems are subject to the discovery filters.The provides information on all the tasks related to the
creation of discovery filters.