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Closed due to inactivity. Received 30 votes with last vote on 27 Nov 2019.

Use CDP or vendor specific discovery protocols to turbo charge discoveries

I personally find the discovery engine completely inefficient.  Why is CDP or other, not used to aid discovery?  I could simply then scan 2 /24 management networks to discover our L3 devices, then use CDP to discover all connected devices... Currently I have to scan a /18 network to discover all of our nodes, which takes hours!  Not very good when I simply want to discover a single node I have added.

While it is of course possible to then create smaller discovery profiles, using CDP or other would decrease this discovery time immensely.