[FEATURE] Expand scan
command capabilities through the use of different discovery protocols
#7
Labels
enhancement
New feature or request
Description of Issue
The motivation of this feature is to allow the
magellan
tool more flexibility of discovering hardware on a network where doing the standard net scan is not sufficient. For example, it may be possible to enhance thescan
command to include a--ssdp
flag to perform a scan using SSDP. Each new method only needs to provide enough information to later perform acollect
for inventory data afterwards.Possible Solution
TBD
Other considerations
The purpose of the
scan
command is to find devices on a network. It does not provide a means for collecting inventory data, but requires sufficient information available to do so. Considering that thecollect
commands fetches the inventory data using the Redfish API, thescan
command currently requires some way of knowing whether the device that's being discovered is a Redfish service to perform acollect
efficiently. This may be able to be handled simply by making a HTTP and checking the response status, but this isn't clear at this point.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: