The eG agent has the ability to auto-discover individual components and the component topology. The ability to auto-discover the relationship between components, when enabled, helps administrators draw an almost accurate segment topology with minimal user intervention and time! By default, the ability of the eG agent to automatically discover topology is enabled. However, this default setting will take effect only if the eG agent has the ablity to automatically discover components. This is because, topology discovery cannot be performed without component discovery. If both component discovery and topology discovery capabilities of the eG agent are enabled, then, select the Discovered sub menu from the Segments option of the Infrastructure tile to auto-discover a segment. If no auto-discovered segments pre-exist, then “No Topologies have been Discovered” message will appear. In such a case, check the ‘discovery status’ displayed at the right, top corner to determine whether/not topology discovery has been turned on. If not, then click the Click here link alongside to instantly switch to the Discovery page to enable topology auto-discovery. If you then come back to the Discoveed Segments page, the auto-discovered topologies will be listed.

You can save any of the listed topologies as a segment using this page, or can modify/delete the discovered topologies.

To modify the discovered segment, click on the Modify () icon. Then, to save the discovered segments, click on the Save () icon.