Traceroute Settings

Traceroute is used when the next hop is not available for SSH/Telnet. Devices discovered using traceroute are marked as unmanaged in IP Fabric site diagrams. More information about traceroute as a protocol can be found on Wikipedia.

For traceroute configuration, go to Settings → Discovery & Snapshots → Discovery Settings → Discovery → Traceroute settings.

New Design

Since version 7.10, we are testing a new design of Discovery Settings. In the new design, this setting is located at the bottom of the Discovery tab in the ‘Advanced settings’ card.

Trace scope – Limits traceroute scope to the defined subnets. This prevents scanning networks outside an internal network.

Use RFC 6890 scopes – This button resets the Trace scope setting to the subnets defined in this RFC.

Protocol – The protocol used for traceroute. Can be selected from the options of ICMP (MS Windows-like), UDP (Linux-like), or TCP.

Port – In the case of UDP and TCP, the destination port can be specified.