Белая книга для Cisco Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.0

 

 

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Devices must be configured with Cisco Discovery Protocol/LLDP, SNMP (V2, V3), or Telnet/SSH. Advanced 

protocols OSPF and BGP can also be used. 

For successfully managing a device using Cisco Prime Infrastructure, it is crucial that all the essential protocols be 

defined in the device credential for a given device. The following matrix shows what protocols are needed for 

various wired and wireless device types. 

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These credentials are sufficient to discover wired as well as wireless networks. 

This method is recommended if you want to specify settings and rerun discovery in the future using the same 

settings. Discovery settings can be used to have a complete control over the discovery process. 

You can specify various protocols, list of seed devices to be used, subnet range, credential profile/credential, and 

management IP address that needs to be used to discover the network. For various discovery settings supported 

by Cisco Prime Infrastructure, see the 

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You can create multiple discovery settings. These specify which protocols are to be used by Cisco Prime 

Infrastructure while discovering the network. Discovery can be easily accessed from the Getting Started page 

when you log in for the first time or by navigating to Inventory > Device Management > Discovery. 

Select Discovery Settings to create a profile and reuse it for discovering the devices in the future. Now click New 

in the discovery settings modal pop-up. Discovery Settings window will pop-up, where you can configure all the 

discovery settings. You will observe that the pop-up is broken down into four sections: Protocol Settings, Filters, 

Credential Settings, and Preferred Management IP.  

You need to select at least one item from Protocol Settings, SNMP and Telnet/SSH from Credential Settings, 

and Preferred Management IP. You can add your subnets manually or use the Import CSV File button to import 

all your subnets from a simple CSV file.  

After creating discovery settings, you can discover the wired and wireless network. Select the saved discovery 

settings and click the Run Now button as shown in the figure. Discovery job will be created and status of the 

discovery job can be monitored in the same page in real time.