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How Discovery Uses Subnets

Discovery is used to find the devices that exist in your IT infrastructure. It organizes these devices into logical structures that can be easily understood, such as networks and subnets. It also automatically determines how the IT infrastructure is interconnected to produce a topology.

Typically, you will want to start managing your IT infrastructure by discovering the gateway (routers) on your network. Discovery maintains a list of the subnets it finds during the search process. After the routers are discovered successfully, you can select and clear the subnets you want to discover.