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How Timeout Values Affect Discovery

The values you specify for SNMP timeout and Ping timeout greatly affects how successful and how long your Discovery takes to run. If you set higher timeout values, Discovery takes longer to run, but has plenty of time to communicate with the devices and obtain the needed information. If you use lower timeout values, Discovery runs faster, but devices may not be classified correctly, or even discovered at all.

If you are discovering routers, we recommend that you use higher SNMP timeout values. You can specify the timeout value in any of the following places, depending on how you are running Discovery:

• Using the command line by specifying the -W parameter on the dscvrbe command
• Using the Management Command Center Discovery or Advanced Discovery Wizard Timeouts page
• Using the Discovery Classic GUI Timeouts box on the Discovery page of the Discovery Setup dialog