Creating a visibility manager and visibility jobs - Adaptive Applications - BlueCat Gateway - 25.3

Cloud Discovery & Visibility Administration Guide
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BlueCat Gateway
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25.3

You initially create a new discovery with real-time updates (also known as Visibility) from the Discovery page. The discovery with real-time updates then appear on the Visibility page as a visibility manager that contains a set of related visibility jobs. Visibility is distinct from discovery in that visibility jobs continuously monitor a network infrastructure for changes to network resources, then updates those changes immediately (in real-time) in Address Manager.

To create a new Discovery:

  1. If you haven't already done so, open the Create new discovery window. In Cloud Discovery & Visibility, click the Discovery tab, then click Create discovery.

  2. Select the platform of the network that you want to discover (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure), then click Next.

  3. Select whether you want to use Basic setup or Advanced setup, then click Next.

    Use Basic setup to let CDV specify default parameters for the discovery or visibility job. Use Advanced setup if you want to specify the discovery and visibility details yourself.

    Note: For a full list of options that are included and not included (that is, not enabled) during Basic setup, see the following topics:

  4. In the Create new discovery window, fill in the credentials, Address Manager Configuration, and Discovery option details for the new job.

    The specific details vary depending on the network platform. Typically, you must configure credentials for the account that CDV is to use during discovery; details of the desired discovery (when using Advanced Setup); and configuration options specific to the platform.

    For more details on the settings in each tab, see the following topics:

  5. Within the Monitoring options tab, select Real time updates, then fill in the rest of the options as needed.

    Doing so specifies that you will be creating a Visibility manager with a set of visibility jobs that continuously monitor a network infrastructure and update Address Manager with changes to its resources.

    Note: Selecting Scheduled updates instead creates a discovery that either runs once, or that is fully re-run at a specified interval. For more details, see Creating a discovery (Schedule manager and discovery jobs).

    The specific options depend on the network infrastructure platform being discovered. For more details, see:

  6. When you're done, click Create new discovery.

    CDV will create a Visibility manager for the discovery on the Visibility page, then add new visibility jobs to that Visibility manager. You can start visibility at any time.