Using Discovery on Linux

How do I set up Discovery?

After installing the required Mono packages you can extract the Discovery_x.x.x.x.zip package on your system (for example. /opt/).

You can make use of the pre-command mono with the included executables (Discovery.exe, Collector.exe, ScanViewer.exe).

For example, to start the set up for Discovery use mono Discovery.exe -s

How to run scheduled scans?

As you can't install the Discovery and Collector as a Service (Windows-Service) on a Linux System, you'll need to add Cron Tasks that execute the functions to to check the configured settings.

Setup your cron task with sudo permissions sudo crontab -e.

Here's some cron examples that you may find useful:

• Check the configured scan settings and execute the command every minute.

  * * * * * mono /opt/Discovery/Discovery.exe -stsc

• Check if data from the agents can be collected from the configured agent IP ranges every ten minutes.

  */10 * * * * mono /opt/Discovery/Discovery.exe -stad

• Check if the data can be transferred to the collector every minute.

  * * * * * mono /opt/Discovery/Collector.exe

Can I connect to Windows?

As Mono.Net doesn't support WMI, you can't connect a Discovery Tool running on Linux to a Windows system.