HP Web Jetadmin Software User Manual

DISCOVERING DEVICES using HP Web Jetadmin CONTENTS Overview ...

10  Fast and thorough, especially on a local segment  Most modern networks block broadcast traffic  PC discovery settings are the same as netwo

11 Importing ranges from a file Many IP ranges can be imported via text files. In many cases, administrators work with hundreds and even thousands of

12 blocks of IP addresses in named groups. In addition, the named IP address groups can be found in an HP Web Jetadmin server file once they have bee

13 When the port name contains a valid IP address in any one of these formats, a node discovery is completed. If the port name does not match one of

14  IP range and IP broadcast discoveries share stored settings data with other discovery features  HP Web Jetadmin applications are discovered v

15 APPENDIX A—TROUBLESHOOTING DISCOVERY Discovery troubleshooting can seem a daunting task. Most of the time, troubleshooting network-connected devic

16 “IP Range discovery is not finding devices it should.”  IP Range discovery pings nodes to make sure they active before attempting the SNMP int

17 APPENDIX B—DISCOVERY TRAFFIC For your reference, a sampling of network traffic generated by discoveries follows below. NOTE Values are traffic-ge

18 APPENDIX C—SETTING REALISTIC IP RANGES IP range discovery can perform to expectations when the range data has been correctly developed. It is very

19 From this information, we can formulate the following IP address ranges and import them into HP Web Jetadmin: 15.0.1.1 - 15.0.1.254 15.0.2.1 - 15.

Appendix E—Global discovery settings... 21 Discovery settings ...

20 APPENDIX D—MAINTAINING ACCURATE ADDRESS INFORMATION HP Web Jetadmin can adjust IP addresses stored for each device. In many cases, IP addresses on

21 APPENDIX E—GLOBAL DISCOVERY SETTINGS Discovery settings The discovery settings in Tools > Options > Device Management > Discovery general

22 Setting Explanation Default SNMP Retries Value sets the number of retry queries HP Web Jetadmin executes when no response is detected. 4 Enable DN

3 OVERVIEW Device discovery enables HP Web Jetadmin to find both network-connected and PC-connected printers, scanners, and multifunction products (M

4 Discovery settings The Device Discovery wizard’s Specify discovery options pane is used to initialize discovery settings (Figure 2). Launch the Dev

5 For more information about SNMP Proxy Agent, see the Discovering PC-connected Devices in HP Web Jetadmin white paper. This white paper is available

6 credentials and add the appropriate value(s) into Tools > Options > Application Management > Credentials > SNMPv1 Get Community Name (F

7 Discovery History Discovery History (Figure 7) can be opened by selecting its node from the navigation tree beneath Discovery. This tool makes it e

8 Last Communication and Last Discovered columns Two columns in HP Web Jetadmin allow the administrator to track the date and time of both the last d

9 PART 2—DISCOVERY METHODS Now that we have looked at discovery features and workflows, we can return to the issue of individual methods of discovery