What protocol or mechanism does Network Insight use for its auto discovery?

[#1]

Hi;

What protocol or mechanism does Network Insight use for its auto discovery? I mean DDI members do network discovery using netbios and tcp handshakes, but how does Network Insight do it?

Kindly

Wasfi

[#2 · Accepted solution]

At a minimum, NI using Traceroute, SNMP, and CLI.  You can optionally turn on TCP scanning (NMAP), NetBIOS scans, and Smart and Raw ping sweeps.  A Smart ping sweep only sweeps if an IP has not been found in a discovered subnet.