isyVmon AutoDiscovery (ADI) simplifies the configuration of new systems in your monitoring system. ADI looks for active systems in a user defined network range. The proven network scanner nmap is used to gather information on your systems. After completing a scan the resulting systems are displayed in a list of DNS name and IP address pairs, allowing you to directly import them into your isyVmon configuration. In case nmap manages to identify the operating system of any components found, ADI will immediately offer a matching host template (which has to be defined by the administrator) or a standard template is chosen or the administrator selects one of his own choice.
You can quickly loose track of systems in extensive scan lists. ADI therefore enables you to use filter functions to simplify searching for certain DNS names, open ports found or instances identifying e.g. all web servers. Systems already setup in isyVmon are tagged making it easy to distinguish new systems. This way you'll only need a single glance at the scan results to decide whether there are non-monitored components in the scanned network range that need to be added to your current configuration.
During the import of new systems it is possible to immediately create applicable services (provided by the host template) and their names in case reverse DNS resolution fails. In most cases this procedure makes any further configuration work unneccessary.
A scan can be executed from the isyVmon Core or remotely from any of its Satellite systems. This way any network ranges not directly accessible from the core but from their respective satellite systems also become available for scanning. As a result you can also configure which satellite systems to run service checks from during importing.
isyVmon ADI eases searching for active systems and integrating these in your monitoring system. It helps reducing the probablity of missing important systems setting up your monitoring solution. And the best thing is - ADI is included from isyVmon v2.4+ by default.
