During Nectus installation user can define up to 10 IPv4 subnets that will be used as initial seed subnets for ICMP scan. Immediately after Installation is completed Nectus starts ICMP scan of provided subnets and builds a list of live IP addresses that responded to Ping.
When Nectus discovers a new device it uses its SNMP sysObjectID (1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2) value to classify device by manufacturer, by major platform category and by model number. For example sysObjectID value of 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.1.1018 Defined as: Manufacturer Value: Cisco Systems (9) Major Category: Cisco ASR 9000 Aggregation Services Routers Model: Cisco ASR 9006 Routers
What is the first question you ask when you start a new network project or start a new job as a network engineer?”: – Can I see your network diagram? Lucky you if you get it right away and in the “right” format (Visio?) but in my past I remember places where it took me […]