Network Discovery

This is the first release of the Network Discovery (KND) add-on module. Network Discovery discovers machines and devices on a network, identifies their components and displays analysis charts of real time performance.

Use Network Discovery for:

• Host and Device Discovery - Identifying hosts and devices on a network, for example listing the hosts which respond to pings.
• Unmanaged Host Discovery - Identifying unmanaged hosts and Installing Kaseya agents to begin managing them.
• Port Scanning - Enumerating the open ports on each node.
• OS and Hardware Detection - Remotely determining the operating system and some hardware characteristics of network devices.
• SNMP Discovery - Identifying active objects and instances on SNMP devices.

Collectors

Scanning begins once the Network Discovery client--called a collector--is installed, using a machine with an existing Kaseya agent. After the collector is installed Network Discovery requires no further configuration.

Machine and Device Detection

Discovery of a machine or device begins by revealing the network configuration for that machine or device. Configuration attributes include the subnet the node is on, its IP address, the node's open ports, and whether or not the node is SNMP enabled. Identified machines and devices can be displayed as an aggregated list, a filtered list, or graphically represented by collector.

SNMP

If the node is SNMP enabled, Network Discovery performs an SNMP walk, identifying the status of SNMP objects and instances found on the node. Once an SNMP-enabled node is discovered, SNMP monitoring continues automatically.

Device Inspector

You can click any active SNMP object/instance supported by a node and get a real time display of the most commonly used performance-monitoring metric for that object. Graphic results are plotted as day, week, month and year graphs.

Filter Folder Trees

Network Discovery uses a folder trees panel to quickly filter the display of machines and devices. Two filter folder trees work in combination: Org and Device.

Column Sets

Columns sets provide instant selection of the appropriate columns for a given task.

SNMP Community Names

SNMP Community Names can be set and cleared.

Collector Status

A separate page displays the status of all installed collectors managed by Network Discovery.

Install/Remove

A separate page manages the installation and removal of Network Discovery collectors.

Small Footprint

Network Discovery's scanning and data requirements are very small. NMAP--a secure, lightweight scanning utility--performs command line scans of the LAN every two hours for rapid retrieval of network object attributes. RRDtool uses a "round robin database" (circular buffer) design; the system storage footprint on the collector remains constant over time, no more than 500 kb per SNMP device.