Cisco Cisco Prime Network 3.8 Release Notes

Management IP 
Selection Method

This setting tells Prime Network how to identify which of the device’s IP 
addresses should be used as the management IP address:

Discovered IP—The IP address used to discover the device.

Loopback—The priority for selecting the IP address if Prime Network 
uses this as selection method is: 

Highest IP address of a loopback interface

Highest IP address of an Ethernet interface

Highest IP address of a Token Ring interface

Highest IP address of a Serial Interface

System Name—Prime Network performs a DNS lookup on the system 
name specified and verifies the validity of the IP address of the device. On 
successful validation, the verified IP address becomes the preferred 
management IP address for this device. If validation was not successful, 
the original IP address used to discover the device will be the management 
IP address. 

DNS Reverse Lookup—Prime Network performs a reverse DNS lookup 
followed by a forward lookup on the IP address specified and verifies the 
validity of the IP address of the network element. On successful 
validation, the verified IP address becomes the preferred management IP 
address for this network element, otherwise the original address will be 
used.

Filters

(Optional) Enables you to filter the results that are displayed for the discovery. 
The filters include:

System Location—Filter by physical/geograpic location of the device (as 
specified in the SYSTEM-MIB). If your network devices are configured 
with the system location, you can use this filter option. 

IP—Filter by IP address.

System Object ID—Filter by device type (as specified in the 
SYSTEM-MIB).

DNS Filter—Filter by domain name. The system resolves the name of the 
device from the DNS server and filters the results.