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What does discovery do?

To make device management easier and to automate bulk operations, Unimus uses a discovery mechanism. Thanks to discovery, you do NOT need to give Unimus precise information about every device in the system (such as username/password, vendor, device type, model, etc.). Unimus will be able to discover all of the details about your devices automatically. This heavily decreases workload when deploying Unimus to your network, as all Unimus needs are IP addresses of your devices, nothing else. In other words, you can import 100 devices into Unimus, and they will all start working properly, instead of having to manually configure the details for each device.

The discovery mechanism works in stages:

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