Scheduling discovery

Label

Enter a label for the discovery run. Where the discovery run is referred to in the UI, it is this label that is shown.

Select the timing for the discovery run. This is either:

• Snapshot — Enter information for scan to occur in a snapshot view.
• Scheduled — Enter information for the scan to occur at any time and for a specified amount of time.

Select the target for the discovery run. This is either:

• IP Address — Enter IP address information.
• Cloud — Enter cloud provider information.

Range

Enter IP address information in one of the following formats:
• IPv4 address (for example 192.168.1.100). Labelled v4.
• IPv6 address (for example 2001:500:100:1187:203:baff:fe44:91a0). Labelled v6.
• IPv4 range (for example 192.168.1.100-105, 192.168.1.100/24, or 192.168.1.*). Labelled v4.

As you enter text, the UI divides it into pills, discrete editable units, when you enter a space or a comma. According to the text entered, the pill is formatted to represent one of the previous types or presented as invalid.

Pills are not currently supported in Opera.

Level

Select the level for the discovery run. This is either:

• Full Discovery — Retrieves all the default info for hosts, and complete full inference.
• Sweep Scan — Performs a sweep scan, trying to determine what is at each endpoint in the scan range. It will attempt to login to a device to determine the device type.

Ping

Select a ping for the discovery run to be performed. This can be:
• Use default
• Ping before scanning
• Do not ping before scanning

Frequency

Select a frequency for the discovery run to be performed. This can be:
• Every n hours
• Weekly by days of week
• Once per week
• Monthly by day of month
• Monthly by week of month.

Start

Based on the selected scan frequency, you are presented with different options to start scheduled scans. Discovery must be running at this time.

• Every n hours: From the menus, select the frequency of the scan (every 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 12 hours), start times at minutes past the hour, and the hours after which the scan should start.
For example, if a scan is scheduled to occur every two hours, then the starting hours may be 00, 02, 04, and so on, or 01, 03, 05, and so on.
• Weekly by days of week: Using the day buttons, click one or more days. The selected buttons appear with a Yellow border. From the menus, select the start time in hours and minutes.
• Once per week: From the menus, select the day of the week and the start time in hours and minutes.
• Monthly by day of month: From the menus, select the day of the month and the start time in hours and minutes.
• Monthly by week of month: From the menus, select the week, the day of the week, and the start time in hours and minutes.

For example, to start a scheduled weekly discovery run which starts on Friday at 19:30 hrs and continues until Saturday, do the following:

1. Select the scan frequency as Weekly by days of week.
2. Click the F and S day buttons.
3. From the time menu, select 19 hours and 30 minutes.

End

You can choose end a scheduled scan when it is completed by selecting when completed.
Alternatively, use the available option to end the scan which is based on the selected scan frequency. If the duration of the end time expires before the scan has completed, then the scan is suspended until the next scheduled time that the scan occurs. The scan resumes from the point where it was previously suspended.
• Every n hours: This scan type does not have a scheduled end time; they run to completion.
• Weekly by days of week: You are provided with the drop down menus to select the end time in hours and minutes.
• Once per week: You are provided with the drop down menus to select the day of the week and time to end the scan.
• Monthly by day of month: You are provided with the menus to select the day of the month and time to end the scan.
• Monthly by week of month: You are provided with the drop down menus to the select the number of days and the time within which the scan must end.

For example, to end a scheduled weekly discovery run which starts on Friday at 19:30 hrs and continues until 21 hours 30 minutes on Saturday (see the example for the Start field above), you will select 21 hours and 30 minutes from the time drop down menu.