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
s
The 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
.