Adding Routers

The Add Routers screen lets you specify the routers, switches, and gateway servers in your network and schedule scanning. OpUtils, based on the scheduler details, scans the devices to collect the MAC IP data of the network devices. The data collected is used in arriving the reports and in the tools that uses the MAC IP data.

To add your Routers

1. Click the tab Admin -> Add Router from the left panel. You can also add routers from the Rogue Detection and Switch Port Mapper tools.

2. Click the Add Router link.

3. The Add Manually option is selected by default.

4. Specify the Device Name and its SNMP Community.

5. Optionally, you can also specify the CLI Settings to get the details through CLI:

1. Select the Router/ Switch vendor. The input fields vary with the vendor.

2. Specify the username, password, password prompt, enable password, and enable password prompt as required.

6. Click Add Device.

7. Repeat step 3 for adding all the devices in your network.

8. The SNMP details of the devices can also be imported from a csv file by selecting the Import form CSV option.

9. To schedule scanning of routers, click Disabled link available beside the Next Scan and specify the scan interval.

10. To resolve the DNS names of the devices during every scan, click the Disabled link available beside the Resolve DNS Name and enable  it.

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