The system supports as many device types as you can see in the market and has been working on the support to streamline the device types ever since. With the Multi-vendor support framework, it is easier to support new device types and vendor models by defining NetBrain drivers.

The system provides the following two methods to identify the Device Type and Device Driver of a device:

▪Use SNMP strings to retrieve the sysObjectID during a live network discovery, and then identify the device type and driver from the Vendor Model list.

▪Use the keywords contained in the configuration file to identify the device type and driver after the configuration files are imported.

If neither way works, you can manually maintain the Network Definition list to associate the device type and the driver.

 

See also:

▪Discovering network devices