Discovery Central

Discovery Central is where you will find Network Sonar Discovery, which is the configuration utility for the Orion Discovery Engine (a core component of Orion NPM). Discovery Central is usually the first location that Orion administrators will go to create a discovery profile once they are ready to start monitoring devices in Orion NPM.

A discovery profile is one that has been created using the Network Sonar Wizard to set up network scanning rules and schedules. You can create as many scanning profiles as needed that all have different rules and different schedules. For example, you could create a profile that scans for VMware hosts on a specific subnet automatically, and a second profile could be created for scanning only for switches and routers on a second subnet, but the scan must be run manually. The options are virtually endless.

Network discovery

A key feature of SolarWinds Orion NPM is the ability to automatically scan your networks for resources and present its findings...