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Discovering Devices in a Physical Network
You can discover and synchronize physical devices such as EX Series switches, QFX Series devices, MX Series routers, in your network that are managed by Network Director.
You can also discover and manage virtual devices in your virtual network from Network Director.
To discover, EX Series switches, Network Director connects to port 22 (the default port) on the Junos Space Virtual Appliance by using SSH. You can configure port 22 on the Junos Space appliances through Administration > Applications on the Junos Space Platform page. Select Network Application Platform and click Actions > Modify Application Settings. Change the SSH port for device connection to 22.
Device discovery is a three-step process in which you specify the target devices, the discovery options, and the schedule options.
While in Build mode, from the Tasks pane, click Discover Devices from the Device Discovery menu. The Discover Devices page is displayed.
This topic describes:
Specifying Target Devices
You can add devices to Network Director for device discovery by clicking either Import from CSV or Add , or both together. Click Import from CSV to add devices in bulk. You can add a large number of devices to Network Director by using a CSV file that contains information extracted from an LDAP repository. During device discovery, you can associate the devices with logical, location, and custom groups. You can list all devices to be discovered in the CSV file along with their logical, location, and custom groups. This eliminates the need to make an explicit association later. If you do not assign groups to the devices, the devices are added to the Unassigned folder by default. You can also change the assignment later. Associating new devices with groups makes the network simpler to manage and maintain.
To specify the target devices that you want Network Director to discover:
Reviewing Device Discovery Options
From this page, you can save or make changes to the device discovery options.
To make changes to the device discovery options, click the Edit button associated with the configuration you want to change.
Alternatively, you can click the appropriate buttons in the profile workflow at the top of the page that corresponds to the configuration you want to change.
When you are finished with your modifications, click Review to return to this page.
Click Finish when you are done with the configurations.
A message window opens, displaying the status of the device discovery job name and job ID. Click OK.
The Device Discovery Jobs page is displayed with the list of jobs scheduled.
Viewing the Discovery Status
After you have configured the device discovery options, you can view the device discovery status from the View Discovery Status option from the Device Discovery menu.
The Device Discovery Jobs page displays all the scheduled device discovery jobs. You can view the following details from the Device Discovery Jobs page as described in Table 1.
Field | Description |
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Job ID | An identifier assigned to the job. |
Job Name | The name of the job (user-created). |
Percent | Percentage of the job that is complete. |
Status | Job status. The possible states are:
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Summary | Summary of the job scheduled and executed with status. |
Scheduled Start Time | The UTC time on the client computer when the job is scheduled to start. |
Actual Start Time | The actual time when the job started. |
End Time | The time when the job was completed. |
User | The login ID of the user that initiated the job. |
Recurrence | The recurrent time when the job will be restarted. |
To view the details of a job, select the check box against Job ID or Job Name and click Show Details. The Discover Network Elements window displays details of the device discovery job.
During device discovery, if Network Director is unable to read the device configurations, then the status displays Failed state. For such failures, you can check the reason for failure from the Manage Jobs page in System mode. You must make the required changes to the device configuration using the CLI so that Network Director can read the configuration. Network Director automatically resynchronizes once you enable a device discovery job. If Network Director cannot discover the device even after resynchronization, then you must rediscover the device after making the appropriate changes in the device configurations by using the CLI.