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Devices

Everything starts here: each collected device, its collection state, and a page that gathers what is known about it.

Manual contents

At a glance

  1. WhereInventory, then Devices.
  2. AccessInventory read access; adding, collecting and deleting need their own permissions.
  3. DataThe declared devices; the page's tabs follow what collection brought back.
/devices
The demo estate's managed device list.

What the screen shows

Managed and Discovered

Managed lists your devices. Discovered lists those seen as CDP or LLDP neighbours but not in the inventory, with Add New Device on each row, address and vendor prefilled.

The columns

Hostname, Stack, IP, Connect Method, Segment, Model, EOL, Type, Software, City, Site, Role, Serial, Uptime, Ports up over all, Collect and Actions.

Filters and exports

Collect filter (All, Collecting, Waiting, Collected, Failed, Never collected), segment filter, a search box per column, and the Column visibility, Excel, CSV and PDF buttons shared by every table.

The licence counter

Devices in the active tenant, in all tenants, and the licence maximum. At the maximum, Add New Device is disabled.

What you can do

  1. 1

    Collect

    One row: the collect icon then Start Collection. Several: Start new collect, tick, Collect now. Force stop interrupts.

  2. 2

    Edit or delete

    From the row: Edit opens the form, Delete appears when hovering the row and asks for confirmation.

  3. 3

    Open the device page

    Click the name. The header gives IP, model, role, software, uptime and collection state, with a collect button. Tabs only appear when the data exists: Details, Licences, Health, Ports, Compliance, CDP, LLDP, BGP, ISIS, VPLS, VLANs, Routes, QoS, and the tabs specific to F5, FortiGate or Wi Fi controllers.

    Changes (N) appears when the configuration changed; Parse coverage says what was read.

    /devices/12289
    A device page from the demo estate.
  4. 4

    See the proof

    The Proof button, on CDP, LLDP, BGP, ISIS and Routes rows, shows the raw command output the row comes from.

Limits and things to know

No editing from the device page

Edit and Delete are only on the list row.

Add New Device is greyed out

Licence at its maximum, or licence server unreachable. The message says which.

Read next

Get started

Devices

Declare a device by its IP address and credential, test the login, or let discovery find the neighbours starting from one device.

Manual

Ports, health and licences

The table of every interface, device hardware state and load, their licences, and SNMP supervision when licensed.

How-to guide

How to record the serial number and version of every network device

Serial number and software version of every network device in one exportable table, plus stack members and modules, and the Cisco commands by hand.

How-to guide

How to find the network devices nobody declared

Find undeclared network devices: CDP and LLDP neighbours missing from the inventory, a crawl from seeds or subnets, and what announces nothing.

Next chapter

Ports, health and licences

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