Discovery process overview

During the discovery process,
uses instances of certain
VMware Smart Assurance
object classes to create within its repository a data model representation of the discovered routing topology. The various data models that are supported by
are shown in Appendix A, “Data Models.”
performs the following steps to discover the routing topology in the managed network:
  1. Imports a protocol topology collection set of objects and (optional) CLI device-access objects from
    IP Availability Manager
    , and adds the objects to its repository.
    A protocol topology collection set contains routing-enabled devices along with containment and connectivity objects that are associated with the devices.
  2. Probes the imported devices for routing topology information.
  3. Creates in its repository instances of the discovered routing topology objects (such as routing-protocol service and endpoint objects) and their relationships.
  4. Combines the information that is collected from the various probes to create additional routing topology objects (routing-protocol adjacency objects and routing-protocol network objects) and additional relationships.
  5. Creates relationships that associate the routing topology objects with the underlying physical objects from
    IP Availability Manager
    .
  6. Exports device and routing topology to the
    Global Manager
    .