IP Availability Manager discovery
IP Availability Manager
discoveryIn the physical-transport
domain,
IP Availability Manager
discovers Layer 2 (data-link) and Layer 3 (network)
connectivity in multivendor, switched, and routed networks. It discovers the
network devices by sending them Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) and
SNMP polls.
In a
deployment,
IP Availability Manager
not only performs its traditional discovery of network
topology objects, but it also creates BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, and OSPF topology
collection sets from the discovered network objects.
imports the topology collection sets from
IP Availability Manager
.
Topology and CLI device-access
object import from IP Availability Manager summarizes
IP Availability Manager
routing-topology discovery and
topology import.
Topology and CLI
device-access object import from
IP Availability Manager

By default,
IP Availability Manager
is not enabled to create the protocol topology collection
sets. The
provides
instructions for enabling this feature.