With Auto Discovery, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor can detect systems on your network that have an IP address within a specified range, as well as other search criteria:

• the ping utility is used to determine whether systems are available on the network
• an Agent check is performed to determine which systems have the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent installed on them
• a WMI check is used to determine whether Windows-based systems are using WMI to gather performance metrics
• SNMP-based network devices are detected
• an SNMP probe is done to find any systems that are using Net-SNMP

Systems that are repeatedly discovered with different checks (e.g., both an Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent and WMI implementation are detected on the same system) are by default assigned a type based on the first check that resulted in its discovery. The auto-discovery order is as follows: agent check, WMI check, network device discovery, Net-SNMP probe.

Once a list of systems in the range of IP addresses that you specified is generated, you can selectively add them to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor.

Using the Auto-Discovery Wizard

The Auto-Discovery wizard runs automatically the first time you launch Uptime Infrastructure Monitor or can be launched at any time by clicking the Config tab, and then clicking Auto Discovery from the left menu.

Set global credentials

The Global Credentials Settings page of the Auto-Discovery Wizard allows users to set global configurations and credentials including :

• Servers running an Uptime Agent
• Servers using WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)
• SNMP Global Configuration (v2 and v3)

Select device types for discovery

The Auto-Discovery Wizard Select Devices to Discover page lets users set options to filter the types of devices discovered when the wizard runs. All of the following device types can be discovered and added in a single pass of the Auto-Discovery Wizard:

• • Uptime agents
  • WMI agentless
  • Network devices
  • Devices using Net-SNMP
  • VMware
  • IBM pSeries LPAR servers (HMC)

Note that when you choose an option, additional configuration options appear.

Options for Uptime Agents, WMI Agentless, Devices using Net-SNMP

Uptime Agents

Provide Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent connection information to allow the Monitoring Station to detect systems that have the Agent installed on them. Select the Use Uptime Agent Global Configuration check box if this information is configured (see Configuring Global Data Collection Methods for more information); otherwise complete the following options:

• Port
  The port through which the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agents communicate with the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Monitoring Station.
• Use SSL
  Select this check box if the Agent securely communicates with the Monitoring Station using SSL.

WMI Agentless

Provide login information for an administrative Windows account if you would like Auto Discovery to scan for systems that are using WMI to collect metrics. Select the Use WMI Global Configuration check box if this information is configured (see Configuring Global Data Collection Methods); otherwise complete the following options:

• Windows Domain (optional)
  The Windows domain in which WMI is implemented.
• User Name
  The name of the account with access to WMI on the Windows domain.
• Password
  The password for the account with access to WMI on the windows domain.

Devices using Net-SNMP

Options for VMware

Options for IBM pSeries LPAR Server (HMC)

Set the search scope

Restrict the range the Auto-Discovery Wizard searches using the Discover Systems/Network Devices page. Simply enter a subnet or IP range to filter where to look for new devices.

Using discovered devices

Once discovered, select devices to:

• create groups
• add Service Monitors
• configure Service Monitors

Create groups

Depending on the type of devices added, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor automatically creates the following device groups:

• Windows Servers
• Linux Servers
• VMware
• IBM Servers

The Auto-Discovery Wizard also automatically creates the following groups, which can be viewed in the Infrastructure tab:

• Applications
• SLA

Add Service Monitors

Easily add service monitors to devices found and added in discovery. Default values allow users to simply review, and then click Next on the parameter steps to add the monitors. In addition to the monitors created by default, users can easily add:

• Windows servers added:
  • Windows Server Performance
    • Performance Check
    • File System Capacity
  • MS-SQL Checks
    • Windows Service Check (MSSQLSERVER)
    • SQL Basic Check (runs a query to test query engine)
    • SQL Advanced Checks (pulls performance information from the DB engine)
  • Active Directory
    • Directory Services Test
    • DNS

• Linux servers added:
  • Linux Server Performance
  • Performance Check
  • File System Capacity

• Any servers added:
  • MySQL Checks
    • MySQL Basic Checks (runs a query to test query engine)
    • MySQL Advanced Checks (pulls performance information from the DB engine)