Discovering multiple devices

The flow of discovering multiple devices can be summarized in the following steps:

  1. Selecting the discovery method:

    • Active Directory discovery – By using a domain controller for the complete automated flow or a discovery agent for the flow with manual preconfiguration.
    • Local network discovery by using Device Sense ™.
    • Manual discovery – By using a machine IP address or host name, or by importing a list of machines from a file.

  2. [For Active Directory discovery (flow with manual preconfiguration) and Manual discovery] Selecting the machines that you want to add to your tenant.

  3. [For Active Directory discovery and Manual discovery] Selecting how to add these machines:

    • Install a protection agent and additional components on the machines, and register them in the Cyber Protect console.
    • Register the machines in the Cyber Protect console (if a protection agent was already installed).
    • Add the machines to the Cyber Protect console as unmanaged devices, without installing a protection agent.

    You can also apply a protection plan, monitoring plan, and a remote management plan to the machines on which you install a protection agent or which you register in the Cyber Protect console.

  4. [For Active Directory discovery (flow with manual preconfiguration) and Manual discovery] Providing administrator credentials for the selected machines.
  5. [For Active Directory discovery (flow with manual preconfiguration) and Manual discovery] Verifying that you can connect to the machines by using the provided credentials.

The machines that are shown in the Cyber Protect console, are divided into the following categories:

  • Discovered devices – Machines that are discovered, but a protection agent is not installed on them.
  • Machines with agents – Machines on which a protection agent is installed.
  • Discovered devices/ Devices without agent – Machines on which a protection agent can be installed.
  • Discovered devices/ Local network - Machines and network devices that were discovered by scanning local networks by using Device Sense ™.
  • Discovered devices/ Active Directory - Machines that were discovered by searching the Active Directory.
  • Discovered devices/ Manual / From text file - Machines that were added manually or from a text file.