Is it possible to automatically discover devices in our network using Cloudmon?

Is it possible to automatically discover devices in our network using Cloudmon?

Yes, Cloudmon supports two types of network discovery

  1. Network Discovery using ICMP, TCP & SNMP protocols - Cloudmon detects most devices in your network. Devices discovered using ICMP & TCP could be added to availability monitoring in bulk from the Discovery page and the devices discovered using SNMP can be added in bulk for performance monitoring.
  2. Topology Discovery using LLDP & CDP - Your network will be scanned and network topology showing connectivity between the devices is displayed. The discovered devices can be added to SNMP monitoring from the topology mapping page.

Refer Network Discovery for more details

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