Autodiscovery data sources
The Name Resolution, IP
Network, and Neighbor probes contact the autodiscovery data sources
to gather the topology and IP address table (ipAddrTable) MIBs of
the seed systems to determine what other systems are known to the
seed systems. As these systems are discovered by autodiscovery, they
too are probed for candidate systems.
The autodiscovery process
uses three different sources of information to discover candidate
systems:
- Topology MIB
- IP address table MIB
- ARP table MIBBy default, autodiscovery uses the topology and IP address table MIBs of the discovered systems (initially, of the discovered seed systems) because the MIBs are very reliable sources for topology information. The procedure for adding the ARP table MIB as a data source is presented in the .