Ping Sweep (as a starting point)

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Ping Sweep (as a starting point)

You have two choices for Auto-Discovery starting points. Use either or both to best advantage in your network
environment:
Discovery Seeds
You designate specific hostnames (not case-sensitive) or IP addresses where Auto-Discovery starts gathering
neighbor information.
Ping Sweep
NNMi issues ICMP pings to certain addresses gathered from neighbor information.
Note: Ping Sweep works only with IPv4 addresses.
Ping Sweep sends ICMP ping commands to IP addresses in the ranges defined in your Auto-Discovery
rules. Ping Sweep enforces the following limits to the ICMP pings:
For each specific IP address range, NNMi issues pings across a maximum of the last two octets in the IPv4
address range. This is equivalent to a /16 subnet
ICMP pings are limited to 500 at one time. This avoids flooding your network or tripping spam detection tools.
When used with Auto-Discovery, Ping Sweep uses the responding IP address as a hint for additional
discovery.
Tip: If Ping Sweep is used with a broadcast IP address, only the first responding IP address is used a hint for
additional discovery.
See "Configure Auto-Discovery Rules" for more information about Auto-Discovery Rules.
Ping Sweep is useful in wide area networks such as ATM, Frame Relay, and Point-to-Point that do not contain an
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) cache.
You configure the Ping Sweep feature at two levels:
"Configure Ping Sweep Global Settings"
"IP Address Ranges for Auto-Discovery" (Ping Sweep configuration for each rule)

For details about how Spiral Discovery works:

See Also
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