# Discovery

Infraon uses multiple protocols to monitor and manage multi-vendor/multi-technology networks, such as IT Infrastructure, Core IP Backbone, Fiber, Transport, Transmission, and SCADA, and data center networks, such as Servers (both physical and virtual platforms), hosted applications, and databases. Infraon supports IPv4 and IPv6-based environments and is proven to scale in monitoring capabilities. 

Infraon provides multiple ways to discover networks using: 

* EMS/NMS Registration and Discovery 
* Automatic Network Discovery (based on CIDR, IP Range, Hostname) 
* Single Node Discovery (Protocol Specific) 
* CSV Based Discovery (For bulk provisioning with additional manual input data for enrichment) 
* Hypervisor Discovery 
* Application-Specific Discovery 
* Database Discovery 
* Scheduled Discovery (for Network Change Detection) 

## Infraon's discovery process 

* Scans network as per the given input (IP range, selected protocol, and discovery options set) 
* Identifies inventory details (refer to below list) in node level 
  * Hostname 
  * IP Address 
  * Make/Model/Series/OS details 
  * Device Type 
  * Gateway 
  * Location 
  * Contact Details 
  * Individual Component Details 
* Collects inventory-specific details at the node and component levels. 
* Creates monitoring profile for the node and component per the defined KPI. 
* Initiates monitoring process for nodes and components. 

### **Discovery Types** 

Multiple forms of discovery allow for adding a wide range of devices. As a result, Organizations will have comprehensive coverage of devices: 

* [Automatic Discovery](/infraon-help/infinity-user-guide/infraon-configuration/it-operations/discovery/automatic-discovery.md) - Discovers all network resources based on various protocols.  
* [Network Discovery](/infraon-help/infinity-user-guide/infraon-configuration/it-operations/discovery/network-discovery.md) - Discovers network devices using SNMP. 
* [Windows Servers](/infraon-help/infinity-user-guide/infraon-configuration/it-operations/discovery/windows-servers.md) - Discovers Windows servers using WMI Protocol. 
* [Linux Servers](/infraon-help/infinity-user-guide/infraon-configuration/it-operations/discovery/linux-servers.md) - Automatically discover SSH-supported devices. 

Let's see each one in detail:


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