# Discovery Support This document will explain how to use discovery to debug issues or manually running to process data. The basic command to get started is: `lnms device:discover HOSTNAME` ## Command options ```bash Description: Discover information about existing devices, defines what will be polled Usage: device:discover [options] [--] Arguments: device spec Device spec to discover: device_id, hostname, wildcard (*), odd, even, all Options: -m, --module=MODULE Specify module(s) to be run. submodules may be added with /. Multiple values allowed. (multiple values allowed) -h, --help Display help for the given command. When no command is given display help for the list command --silent Do not output any message -q, --quiet Only errors are displayed. All other output is suppressed -V, --version Display this application version --ansi|--no-ansi Force (or disable --no-ansi) ANSI output -n, --no-interaction Do not ask any interactive question --env[=ENV] The environment the command should run under -v|vv|vvv, --verbose Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output, 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug ``` `` Use this to specify a device via either id or hostname (including wildcard using *). You can also specify odd and even. all will run discovery against all devices whilst new will poll only those devices that have recently been added or have been selected for rediscovery. `-v` Enables debugging output so that you can see what is happening during a discovery run. `-vv` Enables verbose debugging. This includes things like SQL queries and response from snmp with sensitive data masked as best as possible. `-vvv` Enables full debugging output with all data in tact. `-m` This enables you to specify the module you want to run for discovery. ## Discovery wrapper We have a `discovery-wrapper.py` script which is based on `poller-wrapper.py` by [Job Snijders](https://github.com/job). This script is currently the default. If you need to debug the output of discovery-wrapper.py then you can add `-d` to the end of the command - it is NOT recommended to do this in cron. You also may use `-m` to pass a list of comma-separated modules. Please refer to [Command options](#command-options) of `lnms device:discover -h`. Example: `/opt/librenms/discovery-wrapper.py 1 -m bgp-peers` If you want to switch back to `lnms device:discover` (not recommended), then you can replace: `33 */6 * * * librenms /opt/librenms/discovery-wrapper.py 1 >> /dev/null 2>&1` With: `33 */6 * * * librenms /opt/librenms/lnms device:discover all >> /dev/null 2>&1` ## Discovery config These are the default discovery config items. You can globally disable a module by setting it to 0. If you just want to disable it for one device then you can do this within the WebUI -> Device -> Settings -> Modules. !!! setting "discovery/discovery_modules" ```bash lnms config:set discovery_modules.os true lnms config:set discovery_modules.ports true lnms config:set discovery_modules.ports-stack true lnms config:set discovery_modules.entity-physical true lnms config:set discovery_modules.entity-state false lnms config:set discovery_modules.processors true lnms config:set discovery_modules.mempools true lnms config:set discovery_modules.cisco-vrf-lite true lnms config:set discovery_modules.mac-accounting true lnms config:set discovery_modules.cisco-pw false lnms config:set discovery_modules.vrf false lnms config:set discovery_modules.cisco-cef false lnms config:set discovery_modules.slas false lnms config:set discovery_modules.cisco-otv false lnms config:set discovery_modules.ipv4-addresses true lnms config:set discovery_modules.ipv6-addresses true lnms config:set discovery_modules.route false lnms config:set discovery_modules.sensors true lnms config:set discovery_modules.storage true lnms config:set discovery_modules.hr-device true lnms config:set discovery_modules.discovery-protocols true lnms config:set discovery_modules.arp-table true lnms config:set discovery_modules.discovery-arp false lnms config:set discovery_modules.junose-atm-vp false lnms config:set discovery_modules.bgp-peers true lnms config:set discovery_modules.vlans true lnms config:set discovery_modules.vminfo false lnms config:set discovery_modules.printer-supplies false lnms config:set discovery_modules.ucd-diskio true lnms config:set discovery_modules.applications false lnms config:set discovery_modules.services true lnms config:set discovery_modules.stp true lnms config:set discovery_modules.ntp true lnms config:set discovery_modules.loadbalancers false lnms config:set discovery_modules.mef false lnms config:set discovery_modules.wireless true lnms config:set discovery_modules.fdb-table true lnms config:set discovery_modules.xdsl false ``` ## OS based Discovery config You can enable or disable modules for a specific OS by using `lnms config:set`. OS based settings have preference over global. Device based settings have preference over all others Discover performance improvement can be achieved by deactivating all modules that are not supported by specific OS. E.g. to deactivate spanning tree but activate discovery-arp module for linux OS !!! setting "discovery/discovery_modules" ```bash lnms config:set os.linux.discovery_modules.stp false lnms config:set os.linux.discovery_modules.discovery-arp true ``` ## Discovery modules `os`: Os detection. This module will pick up the OS of the device. `ports`: This module will detect all ports on a device excluding ones configured to be ignored by config options. `ports-stack`: Same as ports except for stacks. `xdsl`: Module to collect more metrics for xDSL interfaces. `entity-physical`: Module to pick up the devices hardware support. `processors`: Processor support for devices. `mempools`: Memory detection support for devices. `cisco-vrf-lite`: VRF-Lite detection and support. `ipv4-addresses`: IPv4 Address detection `ipv6-addresses`: IPv6 Address detection `route`: This module will load the routing table of the device. The default route limit is 1000 (configurable with `lnms config:set routes.max_number 1000`), with history data. `sensors`: Sensor detection such as Temperature, Humidity, Voltages + More `storage`: Storage detection for hard disks `hr-device`: Processor and Memory support via HOST-RESOURCES-MIB. `discovery-protocols`: Auto discovery module for xDP, OSPF, OSPFv3 and BGP. `arp-table`: Detection of the ARP table for the device. `fdb-table`: Detection of the Forwarding DataBase table for the device, with history data. `discovery-arp`: Auto discovery via ARP. `junose-atm-vp`: Juniper ATM support. `bgp-peers`: BGP detection and support. `vlans`: VLAN detection and support. `mac-accounting`: MAC Address account support. `cisco-pw`: Pseudowires wires detection and support. `vrf`: VRF detection and support. `cisco-cef`: CEF detection and support. `slas`: SLA detection and support. `vminfo`: Detection of vm guests for VMware ESXi, libvert and XCP-NG `printer-supplies`: Toner levels support. `ucd-diskio`: Disk I/O support. `services`: *Nix services support. ## Running Here are some examples of running discovery from within your install directory. ```bash lnms device:discover localhost lnms device:discover localhost -m ports ``` ## Debugging To provide debugging output you will need to run the discovery process with the `-v` flag. You can do this either against all modules, single or multiple modules: All Modules ```bash lnms device:discover localhost -vv ``` Single Module ```bash lnms device:discover localhost -m ports -vv ``` Multiple Modules ```bash lnms device:discover localhost -m ports,entity-physical -vv ``` Using `-vv` shouldn't output much sensitive information, `-vvv` will so it is then advisable to sanitise the output before pasting it somewhere as the debug output will contain snmp details amongst other items including port descriptions. The output will contain: - DB Updates - SNMP Response