Automatic Network Discovery

By selecting the Automatic Network Discovery option from the user menu (or by clicking the corresponding link on the main page) you can scan your network for servers and devices that IPCheck Server Monitor will be able to monitor for you.

Using this feature a basic monitoring for your network can be set up in a matter of minutes, regardless of the number of servers running.

Note: The Network Discovery only searches for a selection of simple sensor types and uses only the basic settings for these sensors to make the discovery easy to set up. After the discovery process has finished you should revise and eventually update the settings for all sensors!

Note: Be aware that the automatic network discovery is actually a scan of your network. Make sure you are legally authorized and technically allowed to run a network scan on the selected addresses.

Clicking the Automatic Network Discovery link will show the following form:

In the IP Address Range, enter the IP address of the first and last node that should be scanned. Note: Do not set .0 or .255 as starting or ending range, as these address values are reserved and will produce an error.

Then, select the types of sensors you would like to start scanning for. Click OK when finished.

This starts the scanning process. It takes about 5-15 seconds per IP address.

During the scanning process IPCheck will first generate all the selected sensors for the given address range. Then all sensors are executed once. If a sensor fails upon this first test it is removed from the list.

As soon as the scan is finished you will get the list of devices and services found during the IP Address Range scan.