Launch network discovery

The discovery network task can be executed manually by clicking the "Start now" button, or automatically if the schedule option is enabled.

If the schedule task is enable, you can configure it on the Scheduled task page as well.

On the Network dicovery page there are two different servers to configure, the first one, the server to connect, the second one, the server to discover.

The server to discover is in charge to scan the network to discover the hosts of the network. For each host discovered, the Nmap utility gets the info about the ports and the protocols used, all that information will be saved on Soffid database.

When the server to discover discovers a host, then the server to connect attempts to connect to the host using the accounts defined on the accounts to probe list.

If the server to connect gets to connect to the host

The discover process is multithread. To discover the host of the network, and then attemp to connect to each of them, Soffid launch from 1 to 20 threads, with that configuration Soffid get to optimize the discover process.

For each hosts detected

The first one, is use to attempt to connect to the hosts discovered

the network discovery is launched, the server defined on the Schedule section will be in charge to scan the network to discover the hosts. If no server is selected, Soffid will use one of the primary servers installed and configured on Soffid Console.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nmap