Overview

The Ping Discovery Event Monitor scans an IP range that you specify looking for ICMP ping responses from each IP address. It compares the list of systems that it finds with the existing network devices that have already been added to your monitoring configuration. Any new devices are added to the device group that you select.

Use Cases

• Quickly onboarding many devices
• Automatically detecting and onboarding new devices

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

IP Range

Enter the IP range that the event monitor will search. You may enter up to a class B range.

Device Group

Select the device group where the event monitor will add any new devices that it detects.

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if a previously discovered device isn't detected

Use this option to choose an alert level to receive if a device this event monitor discovered before isn't detected when the event monitor runs.

Pause previously discovered devices if they are no longer found

This option will pause devices that were previously discovered if they are no longer present when the event monitor runs again.

Move previously discovered devices if they are no longer found

This option will move devices that are no longer found to a device group of your choosing.

Remove previously discovered devices if they are no longer found

This option will automatically remove devices from FrameFlow if they are no longer discovered by this event monitor.

Ignore discovered devices if an existing device's name resolves to the same IP address

This option lets you ignore devices the event monitor picks up if a device that's already in your FrameFlow configuration has the same IP.

Ignore

Enter an IP address or range of IP addresses that will be ignored each time the monitor runs.

Authentication and Security

This event monitor does not require authentication or specific security rights.

Protocols

Data Points

This event monitor does not generate any data points.

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.

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Sample Output