Discovery doubt

[Cisco SmartNet]

I have a doubt about discovery.

Once a have a collector working correctly for a while, collecting all my devices and I need to collect devices from a new IP range, I need to insert the range in "Discovery -> insert the range -> choose the snmp version -> Finish".

After the devices from the new range are collected correctly, I need to do something with the collection profile in "collect button" or it is automatically update with the new IP range?

Best regards. 

[adias · Accepted solution]

Here is the process flow.

A discovery profile : In its essence will learn about the device and it will place those devices on the managed device list, it will collect a single snmp data point and place that information on that manage device list.  I also assume here you have schedulled your discovery profile to occur monthly

A collection profile : in essence will go to that list of devices and perform the collection on them , the collection is a set of datasets and much more comprehensive than discovery.

so if you have done both correctly there is not need to update anything on the collection profile. it automatically get whatever was the last data discovered on each device on the managed device list.

[Cisco SmartNet]

Thank you so much, it really helped me a lot.

Best regards

[adias]

My pleasure.. this things initially can be very confusing