Network Discovery Tool

Discover, map, and monitor devices with a network discovery tool

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Use a network discovery tool to automatically discover devices across your network

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Automatically discover the SNMP-enabled devices across your network with SolarWinds^® Network Performance Monitor (NPM). NPM’s network discovery tool, Network Sonar Wizard, uses SNMP monitoring to quickly create a detailed inventory of your network devices. Once you provide the list of IP addresses, IP range, or subnets, along with SNMP credentials, NPM is built to do the rest. Use Network Performance Monitor to run a single discovery or schedule discovery jobs that can identify new devices.

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Automatically map network topology with your network discovery tool

Keeping network topology maps up to date manually can be a difficult task and only becomes more complicated as your network scales up or takes on new devices.

SolarWinds NPM is designed to make network visualization easy with custom dynamic network mapping. You can create dozens of auto-updated maps and easily adjust their visual features as needed. This tool also allows you to display device performance metrics, so you can more easily visualize the performance of your network.

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Use your network discovery tool to monitor device fault, availability, and performance

Network observability for deeper network management

With the network discovery tool in SolarWinds NPM, you can monitor fault, availability, and performance of your network devices. By polling the MIBS on your devices, Network Performance Monitor can collect important performance metrics and display them in customizable charts and dashboards. This visibility makes it easy to monitor network usage and availability, helping you ensure your users can always access the services and applications they need.

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Reduce downtime with network infrastructure monitoring

In addition to discovering your network, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is built to monitor your network infrastructure to help you ensure your business service delivery. NPM includes infrastructure monitoring tools to provide deep insights into your network, which can lead to faster problem solving to help prevent and minimize downtime.

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Get More on Network Discovery Tools

Do you find yourself asking…

What is a network discovery tool?
How does a network discovery tool work?
How to run a network device discovery job
How to customize network device discovery
Why is having a network device discovery tool important?
How does the network discovery tool work in Network Performance Monitor?

A network discovery tool is a type of detection software built to find and help you identify all the devices on your network. The tool uses automatic network discovery to help you better understand what devices are on a local area network (LAN) either through manually running discovery or scheduled jobs. They may also provide the option to monitor those devices for updates moving forward, which can help you visualize the devices in your network and track their performance metric.

With the help of an auto-generated map, a network device discovery tool can make it easier to drill down on specific nodes on your network to see device details, including device information, packet loss, current node status, average response time, and more. These details can help with troubleshooting specific devices when you encounter an issue in the network.

A network discovery tool is a type of detection software built to find and help you identify all the devices on your network. The tool uses automatic network discovery to help you better understand what devices are on a local area network (LAN) either through manually running discovery or scheduled jobs. They may also provide the option to monitor those devices for updates moving forward, which can help you visualize the devices in your network and track their performance metric.
With the help of an auto-generated map, a network device discovery tool can make it easier to drill down on specific nodes on your network to see device details, including device information, packet loss, current node status, average response time, and more. These details can help with troubleshooting specific devices when you encounter an issue in the network.
The basic steps for creating a discovery job on a network device discovery tool include:
Choose the IP address ranges for the devices you want to discover.
When creating a job, choose the scanning option you want to use to scale your implementation. These include IP ranges, subnets, IP addresses (which can let you scan specific addresses that fall outside of ranges), and Active Directory (which can let you add large subnets). Make sure you have settings that will search for all the device types you want to monitor whether SNMP-enabled or not.
Set your discovery job to either be performed manually or automatically.
The device discovery will begin running and can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, depending on the size of your network.
After you run discovery jobs, the network device detection software can automatically import and begin monitoring devices based on the default settings. If you want to be more selective in which devices and nodes are monitored, as well as which applications and interfaces on them are monitored, you can follow a few extra steps:
In the LAN device discovery tool, you should see all the discovery jobs you built in the past. This information is extremely informative for providing an outline of your jobs, when they are scheduled to run, and when they last ran.
From there, click on the option to import all the results, which lets you choose which objects you want to add for monitoring.
As you go through the information, you’ll see the types of nodes discovered, the different interfaces, the specific nodes and devices, and specific elements of the nodes.
Once you’ve made all your selections about what you want to monitor with your network discovery software, you can begin the importing process.
The tool should now automatically monitor all the customized, selected devices.

"SolarWinds greatly helps us ensure that potential network issues are resolved before they affect service delivery which goes a long way to justifying the investment."

Phil Rogers

Head of Networks

London School at Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

A network discovery tool helps give you power over your network

Network Performance Monitor

Gain automatic multi-vendor network discovery and inventory.
Create network topography maps for device monitoring and troubleshooting.
Easily compare monitoring data with PerfStack™ cross-stack network data correlation.

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