The Settings page contains sections with configuration settings and other tools useful for setting up Network Discovery on your system. Many of these settings can be specified as environment variables when deploying the container.
UDF/UDL
Network Discovery requires the creation of several user-defined fields (UDFs) and user-defined links (UDLs) in BlueCat Address Manager (BAM). Network Discovery uses these fields and links to track information that it collects. For details on creating UDFs and UDLs in Address Manager, see Adding a user-defined field and Adding user-defined links.
Within the UDF/UDL configuration section, Network Discovery checks to make sure that the proper UDFs and UDLs are created. If a specific UDF or UDL can't be found, Network Discovery displays a warning.
To automatically create any missing UDFs or UDLs, click the Create missing UDFs/UDLs button.
Default configuration
Specify the configuration to be applied in the Network Discovery workflow.
Management Configuration
Set user account details when connecting to BAM through Network Discovery API endpoints.
Starting in v24.1, you can configure the BAM SSH Password and BAM SSH Key fields in this section. This is because the Probe APIs do not establish a direct connection to BAM. The discovery output results from the Probe are sent to the Management component as JSON files. Then, the Management component performs SSH and copies the results to BAM.
In previous releases, the Probe required a direct connection to BAM in order to perform SSH and copy the discovery output JSON files to BAM.
BAM SSH password and BAM SSH key:
Select whether authentication details for the Management container will be through a password (BAM SSH password) or an SSH key (BAM SSH key).
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In the BAM SSH user field, enter the BAM user name that the Management container will use to connect to BAM. Currently, this must be
root
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If you selected BAM SSH password for the authentication type, in the BAM SSH password field, enter the password that the Management container should use when connecting to BAM.
If you selected BAM SSH key, in the BAM SSH key field, paste the SSH authentication key that the Management container should use when connecting to BAM.
Probe
The Probe table in this section lists the discovery probes. The settings configured for the discovery probes specify how discovery probes connect and authenticate with devices and with Network Discovery API endpoints. You can filter the list by probe name or URL.
To add a new discovery probe, click Add and configure the settings as required. For more details, see Adding a discovery probe.