Working with large customers with many, many remote sites, there is a need to discover specific IP addresses at multiple locations. For example, using this scheme:
10.AAA.BBB.CCC
AAA might equal the state, BBB the facility, and CCC the device itself. As the company uses a standard layout, let's say all facilities use standard final octets as follows:
.001 - firewall
.002 - switch
.003 - server
so if we wanted to scan all stores in a region for switches we would like to do a search like this:
10.1.*.2, - or for all regions 10.*.*.2.
This allows us to have specific discoveries that run for specific equipment, allows for better grouping upon import, easier integration with SAM, and keeps all the trash items that we don't want to import out of the discovery process, speeding things up.
