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Network discovery

Description

Network discovery is the tool that, given communication networks and configured access accounts, is able to identify the machines in each network and retrieve information about user accounts. Also, Network discovery can detect system accounts. For each network is mandatory to define the accounts and password of potential administrators to connect.

You can find more infomration about the networks on the Networks page.

The operating system of machines can be Windows or Linux and it is not neccesary to install any adtional software on those machines. 

Once the machines and accounts, both user and system, have been discovered, the critical accounts must be located in the password vault. You can visit the Password vault page for more information.

Sreen overview

Standard attributes

Network attributes

Those attributes are readOnly, you can update them on Network page.

  • Name: network name.
  • Description: brief description.
  • IP Address: IP range of this network.
  • IP address mask: IP mask of this network.

Server

  • Server: list of available syncserver

Accounts to probe

  • Accounts to probe: list of potencial administrators accounts to connect to the machines.

Schedule

  • Enabled: if it is selected (value is Yes), the task will be perform on scheduled defined. 
  • Task description: brief description of the task
  • Month: number of the month (1-12) when the task will be performed. 
  • Day:  number of the day (1-31) when the task will be performed.
  • Hour: hour (0-23) when the task will be performed. 
  • Minute: minute (0-59) when the task will be performed.
  • Day of week: number of the day (0-7 where 0 means Sunday) of the week when the task will be performed. 
  • Server: where the agent is running.

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