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Viewing the Device Discovery Profile Details in Security Director

You can view the details of device discovery profiles, which allows you to view information about a device discovery profile at a quick glance on one page, from the Device Discovery page.

To configure a device discovery profile:

  1. Select Devices > Device Discovery.

    The Device Discovery page appears.

  2. Double-click the discovery profile for which you want to view the details. Alternatively, select the discovery profile and from the More or right-click menu, select View.

    The View Discovery Profile page appears. Table 1 describes the fields on this page.

  3. Click OK.

    You are returned to the Device Discovery page

Table 1: View Discovery Profile Page Fields

Field

Description

Device Target

Discovery Profile Name

Name of the device discovery profile

Target Type

Indicates the type of target used to discover devices (IP address, IP address range, IP subnet, hostname, or imported from a comma-separated values (CSV) file).

Target Details

Indicates the value of the specified target type. For example, if the target type is IP range, then the IP address range is displayed.

Probes

Use Ping

Indicates whether ping is enabled for device discovery or not.

Use SNMP

Indicates whether SNMP is enabled for device discovery or not.

SNMP Version

If SNMP is enabled, indicates the version of SNMP used for device discovery.

Community

Displays the community string used for SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c.

Username

For SNMPv3, indicates the username of the user that is used for authentication on the device.

Privacy Type

Indicates the type of privacy used for SNMPv3.

Key-Based

Indicates whether key-based authentication is used or not.

Credentials

Authentication Type

Indicates whether the authentication is credential-based or key-based.

Username

Displays the username for credential-based or key-based authentication.

Fingerprints

Hostname/IP

Displays the hostname or IP address of the device.

Fingerprint

Displays the fingerprint for the device.