IP Availability Manager
discovery

In 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.