There are two complementary options which determine the source of the data for the discovery operation. In order to continue to the next page, at least one of them needs to be selected.
•Import from Active Directory - use this option to import devices from your Active Directory. You will be able to specify the domain and the filtering in the next step.
•Network scan (ping sweep) - use this option to perform a ping sweep on your network. You will be able to specify the IP address range in the next step.
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Note: The network scan tries to contact each device in the specified network range and checks for predefined ports to determine the device family (Windows or UNIX). Contact your network administrator before executing scans on a wide range of addresses. |
Selecting Network scan (ping sweep) adds an extra page Network scan to the list, where the user can configure the IP address range. Selecting Import from Active Directory adds an extra page Active Directory where the user can configure scanned domain(s), filters, and default behaviors. The options are complementary which means that both can be selected at the same time. In this case, RayVentory Scan Engine merges information from both sources and discovers devices respecting both ping sweep results and extra bits of information from the Active Directory.