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Discovering and Defining Nodes

Before NerveCenter can manage a set of devices, a set of node definitions must reside in the NerveCenter database. There are two ways to enter these definitions into the NerveCenter database:

• By using a discovery mechanism. Both network management platforms and NerveCenter itself have the ability to explore a network and discover what devices are on the network. NerveCenter can use the information gleaned during this discovery process to create a set of node definitions.
• By defining the nodes manually using the NerveCenter GUI.

Generally, if you're managing a network of any size, you'll use a discovery mechanism to gather information about the devices on your networks. Defining nodes manually is appropriate only if you have a very small network or if you want to add to your database some nodes that were not found during the discovery process (perhaps because they were on a subnet that the discovery program did not explore).

For further information on these two methods of adding node definitions to the NerveCenter database, see the following sections:

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