Grid Manager provides a Devices page under Data Management for a complete list of every device that discovery finds, and lists all unmanaged and managed devices. Here you can explore information about the discovered devices and drill down to specific information about every device. For information, see the next section.

Listed devices can be displayed in one of three states in the Devices page:

Note: For information about managed and unmanaged devices, see Converting Unmanaged Devices to Managed Devices. You can also use the "Unmanaged devices and networks" filter in global search to locate all the unmanaged devices and networks discovered through discovery. For more information, see Using Global Search. 

Also, you can view VRF-based devices and map them to network views from the Data Management → Devices tab. See Viewing Discovered VRFs and Mapping Network Views.

Viewing the Complete List of Discovered Devices

The Data Management tab –> Devices tab provides a complete view of all discovered devices discovered by Network Insight. The list includes routers, switches, firewalls and other security devices, wireless APs, end hosts and servers in end-host networks. Use NIOS standard filtering to narrow down the status table to the devices or values you want to examine.

You can see the following information in the devices table:

For each listed device, the Action icon  provides the following options depending on the device type and its status: 

Click Discovery Status in the Toolbar to view the same list of network devices showing the discovery data set. You can sort the table by Name or IP address. Use Grid Manager-standard filtering to display device names, IP addresses or other values in which you are interested.

Editing Device Properties

In the Device Properties Editor, you can change the management IP address and settings for interfaces of the selected device, apply extensible attributes, or apply administrative permissions for Grid Manager admin access to the device.

To edit properties of a device:

  1. In the Data Management → Devices tab, click the Action icon for the required device or select the device and click the Edit icon above the table.
  2. In the General tab, edit the following general device properties:
  3. In the Interfaces tab, edit the followng basic port settings:
  4. In the Extensible Attributes tab, add any attributes that are necessary for the device.
  5. In the Permissions tab, edit administrative permissions for the device:
    1. Click the Add icon. Grid Manager displays the Admin Group/Role Selector dialog box.
    2. In the Admin Group/Role Selector dialog box, select the admin group you want to add, and then click the Select icon.
    3. Select the permission for the group.
    4. Select an object to which the permission applies from the drop-down list in the Resources column.

      Note: Administrators can access discovered and managed devices in Grid Manager. For tasks such as provisioning networks, adding administrative permissions is advised to ensure that unauthorized changes to device configurations cannot take place. For example, you can use accounts with the Port Control permission to control and manage network provisioning tasks. 

  6. Click Verify where applicable, for example, in the interfaces settings.
  7. Click Save & Close.

Viewing Discovered VRFs and Mapping Network Views

To view VRF instances (or VRFs) and map corresponding network views, do the following:

  1. From the Data Management tab, select the Devices tab, and then click VRF Mapping from the Toolbar.
  2. The VRF Mapping dialog appears and displays the following:

You can do the following in this tab:

Note: The appliance displays a warning message when there are discovered VRFs that are not mapped to network views. To ensure that discovered VRFs are mapped to network views, you can configure automatic VRF mapping, as described in Configuring Automatic VRF Mapping.