- About LogicMonitor
- AIOps
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- Certification
- Cloud Monitoring
- Collectors
- Dashboards and Widgets
- Devices
- Getting Started
- Implementation Readiness
- I just signed up for LogicMonitor, now what?
- Advanced LogicMonitor Setup
- LogicMonitor Security Best Practices
- Defining Authentication Credentials
- Adding devices when they boot
- Network scanning for additional devices
- Credentials for Accessing Remote Windows Computers
- Why am I receiving account lock out alerts?
- Running without Administrator Privileges in Windows
- How do I get support resources?
- LM Service Insight
- LogicModules
- Mobile
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- Rest API Developers Guide
- RPC API Developers Guide - Deprecated
- Servicenow CMDB Integration
- Settings
- Terminology and Syntax
- Websites
Network scanning for additional devices
You can configure LogicMonitor collectors to periodically look for and automatically discover devices in your network.
Automated discovery of devices in your network involves 3 steps:
- Creating a NetScan definition
- Running a NetScan on a particular collector
- Scheduling the NetScan to run on a collector or collectors as needed.
When devices are discovered by a network scan, they can be named in one of the following ways:
- If the device responds to a defined SNMP community string, the device will be identified by the response from the sysName OID.
- If SNMP communication fails, reverse DNS resolution is attempted.
- If reverse DNS entries are not found, the IP address is used to name the device.
You can create, edit and run NetScan from Settings | NetScan. For instructions on setting up a NetScan definition, see this page.
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