Document Outline

• Welcome to Network Discovery
  • About Network Discovery
    • Peregrine Desktop Inventory can contribute data to Network Discovery
  • Why it’s important to prepare
  • Start by collecting information about your network
• Pre-setup Questionnaire
  • Your contact information
  • Describe your network’s node and subnet setup
  • Enter the Peregrine appliance network information
  • Peregrine Systems Customer Support access
  • List IPv4 ranges for Network Discovery to discover
  • List IPv4 ranges for Network Discovery to avoid
  • List the community strings of your network’s devices
  • Enter TCP/IP configuration
  • What server will you use for the Peregrine appliance?
  • Send the questionnaire
• Prepare the network
  • Turn on SNMP management in all routers and core switches
  • (Optional) Turn on SNMP management in other devices
  • Set DHCP lease time
  • About community strings
  • Give the Peregrine appliance IP address to all devices using directed community strings
  • (Optional) Adjust bridge aging
  • Plan the device and port to which the Peregrine appliance will be attached
  • Choose how to receive Peregrine Systems Customer Support
    • Through Internet access
    • Virtual Private Network over the Internet
    • By modem and dedicated telephone line
    • Through a Remote Access Server (RAS)
  • Enable firewall ports
  • Check Cisco devices
  • (Optional) Enable UDP port forwarding on routers
  • Check Committed Information Rate values
• Compatibility Matrix
  • Picking the right Server
    • Basic Requirements
    • Small Appliance (up to 4,000 devices)
    • Medium Appliance (up to 8,000 devices)
    • Large Appliance (up to 15,000 devices)
    • Servers that have been tested
  • Check the management workstation
  • Peregrine Product Compatibility
• Install and Start Network Discovery
  • About installing the hardware
  • Connect a keyboard and monitor directly to the Peregrine appliance
  • Connect the Peregrine appliance to AC power
  • Set the BIOS boot sequence
    • IBM Hardware
    • Dell Hardware
    • HP Hardware
  • Install Network Discovery software from the CD
  • Give the Peregrine appliance its network information
  • Connect the appliance to the network
    • Top-of-the-network device
    • IBM xSeries 335 Peregrine appliance
    • IBM xSeries 330 Peregrine appliance
    • IBM xSeries 336 Peregrine appliance
    • Dell 1750 Peregrine appliance
    • Dell 1650/1850/2650 Peregrine appliance
    • HP DL360/DL380 Peregrine appliance
  • Connect a management workstation to the network
  • Connect an Uninterruptible Power Supply
  • (Optional) Connect data backup equipment and pager hardware
  • (Optional) Connect the Peregrine appliance to a telephone line
  • (Optional) Using terminal emulation software
• Appliance Management
  • Log in to Network Discovery
    • Troubleshooting when logging in for the first time
  • The Home page
  • The Toolbar
    • The banner or title bar
    • The status window
  • Assign a system name, contact, and location
  • Change the Peregrine appliance community strings
  • Set the time zone
  • Enter the domain name server
  • Enter the host name
  • (Optional) Enter the Workgroup name
  • (Optional) Enter the Administrator e-mail address
  • (Optional) Enter the SMTP server
  • Set the system time
    • Set the date and time
    • Synchronize the time
    • Enter an NTP server to synchronize the time (continually)
  • Change the default Admin password
  • About disabling warnings
    • Disabling UPS warnings
    • Disabling modem warnings
    • Disabling backup warnings
• Licenses
  • How it works
  • Request a new license
  • Install the new license
• Set up Network Discovery
  • How it works
  • Run router discovery
  • Set up the IPv4 range(s) to discover
    • Import your IPv4 ranges from a CSV file
    • View an IPv4 range
    • Export your IPv4 ranges to a CSV file
    • Delete an IPv4 range
    • Add an IPv4 range
  • Set up the IPv4 range(s) to avoid
  • Add ranges for DHCP servers and unmanaged routers
  • Add community strings-the quick way
  • Activate your proposed changes
  • Check that it’s working
    • Are devices appearing on the Network Map?
    • Are there problems on the Exceptions reports?
    • Check the Device Filters report
    • Check the Device Modeling Queue
• Refining Network Discovery
  • A precise matrix of network discovery
  • A tree of IPv4 ranges
  • Property Groups
  • Network Property Groups
    • The properties
  • How to use Network Property Groups
  • Making changes to Network Property Groups
    • Modify a Network Property Group
    • Create a Network Property Group
    • Delete a Network Property Group
  • Apply a Network Property Group to a range
  • Community Property Groups
  • More on community strings
    • Multiple Strings
    • SNMP Traps
    • Directed Community Strings
    • Deleting a community string
  • Property sets are a shortcut
  • Reviewing and activating your configuration changes
• Setting up Accounts
  • There are four pre-installed accounts
  • How many people can use Network Discovery at once
  • How the types of accounts differ
  • Creating accounts
  • (Optional) More Account Administration
• Backup and Restore
  • About external backups
  • Choosing tape or an FTP site for your external backup
  • Configuring an external backup
  • Testing your external backup and restore
  • To run an internal or external backup immediately
  • Restoring your data
    • Restoring from the internal backup
    • Restoring from an FTP site
    • Restoring from tape
    • Restoring from another appliance
• Shutting down the Peregrine Appliance
  • How to shut down the Peregrine appliance
• Before you call...
  • Overview
  • Check that your maintenance license is current
  • Check that you have the latest software components
  • Download the new component(s)
  • Install the new component(s)
  • After you install new components
• Security Checklist
• Extra Hardware
  • Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) units
    • Acceptable UPS units
    • Recommended UPS units for Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the South Pacific
    • Recommended UPS units for North America
  • Tape Drive
  • External Modem
  • Adding a CPU or a modem later
    • Use the CD and reboot the Peregrine appliance
• Index