metalcloud-cli network-device discover

Discover and inventory network device interfaces and configuration

Synopsis

Initiate discovery process for a network device to automatically detect and inventory its interfaces, hardware components, and software configuration.

This process connects to the device using its management interface and gathers detailed information about:

  • Physical interfaces and their status

  • Hardware components and capabilities

  • Software version and configuration

  • VLAN and networking setup

Arguments: network_device_id The unique identifier of the network device to discover

Examples:

Discover device interfaces and configuration

metalcloud-cli network-device discover 12345

Using alias

metalcloud-cli switch discover 12345

metalcloud-cli network-device discover <network_device_id> [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for discover

Options inherited from parent commands

  -k, --api_key string         MetalCloud API key
  -c, --config string          Config file path
  -d, --debug                  Set to enable debug logging
  -e, --endpoint string        MetalCloud API endpoint
  -f, --format string          Output format. Supported values are 'text','csv','md','json','yaml'. (default "text")
  -i, --insecure_skip_verify   Set to allow insecure transport
  -l, --log_file string        Log file path
  -v, --verbosity string       Log level verbosity (default "INFO")

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