Light discovery
In addition to performing its
traditional discovery of network objects, the
IP Manager
, as
shown in
Exporting topology
collection sets to satellite Domain Managers, can be configured to
create topology collection sets from the discovered network objects, one set
for each of the satellite
Domain Manager
s
that are supported by the
IP Manager
. The
creation of topology collection sets is known as “IP Manager
light discovery” or simply “light discovery.”

Exporting topology
collection sets to satellite
Domain Manager
sThe term “satellite,” as used
here, refers to any of the
VMware Smart Assurance
Domain Manager
s
that import topology and topology updates from the
IP Manager
.