Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

Network Node Manager i Software10.30

Administer > NNMi Discovery > Plan Discovery > Discovery Seeds

Discovery Seeds

List the devices to use as discovery seeds.

Tip One of the NNMi rules for selecting the preferred management IP address specifies using the first discovered IP address as the management address. You can influence NNMi by configuring the preferred IP address as the seed address.

Tip For Cisco devices, use a loopback address as the discovery seed because loopback addresses are more reliably reachable than other addresses on a device. Ensure that DNS is correctly configured to resolve the device hostname to the loopback address.

List-based discovery only

For list-based discovery, list all devices that you want NNMi to manage. You might be able to export this list from asset management software or from some other tool.

Because NNMi does not automatically add any devices to this list, ensure that the list includes every device for which you have responsibility or which influences your monitoring and status calculations.

Rule-based discovery only

Discovery seeds are optional for rule-based discovery:

If ping sweep is enabled for an auto-discovery rule, you do not need to specify a seed for that rule.
For each auto-discovery rule with ping sweep disabled, identify at least one seed per rule. If a rule includes multiple IP address regions, you might need a seed in each routable region because routers do not keep ARP entries across WAN links.

Tip For the most complete rule-based discovery, use routers, not switches, as discovery seeds because routers generally have much larger ARP caches than do switches. A core router connected to a network that you want to discover is an excellent choice for a discovery seed.

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