diff --git a/doc/Extensions/Auto-Discovery.md b/doc/Extensions/Auto-Discovery.md index 101ae8ad49..9d4a3565f7 100644 --- a/doc/Extensions/Auto-Discovery.md +++ b/doc/Extensions/Auto-Discovery.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ a few methods which will be explained below and also indicate if they are enable All discovery methods run when discovery.php runs (every 6 hours by default and within 5 minutes for new devices). +> Please note that you need at least ONE device added before auto-discovery will work. + The first thing to do though is add the required configuration options to `config.php`. #### SNMP Details @@ -76,6 +78,16 @@ Enabled by default. This module is invoked from bgp-peers discovery module. +#### SNMP Scan +This isn't actually an auto- mechanism but manually invoked. + +It's designed to scan through all of the subnets in your config or what you have manually specified +to automatically add devices. An example of it's usage is: + +```bash +./snmp-scan.php r 192.168.0.0/24 +``` + #### Discovering devices by IP By default we don't add devices by IP address, we look for a reverse dns name to be found and add with that. If this fails