Users Guide

Discovering devices for monitoring or
management
By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Discovery, you can discover devices in your data center environment to
manage them, improve their usability, and improve resource availability for your business-critical operations. The Discovery
page displays the number of devices discovered in task and information about the status of discovery job for that device. The
job statuses are Queued, Completed, and Stopped. The right pane displays information about the task such as the total possible
devices, device discovered with Device Types and their respective count, next run time if scheduled, and last discovered time.
View Details in the right pane displays individual discovery job details.
NOTE:
● To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-based
operational access to the devices. See Role and scope based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15.
● In order to support discovery with domain credentials, OpenManage Enterprise (version 3.2 and later) uses the
OpenSSH protocol instead of the WSMAN protocol used in the previous versions. Hence, all the Windows and Hyper-
V devices discovered prior to updating the appliance have to be deleted and re-discovered using their OpenSSH
credentials. Refer the Microsoft documentation to enable OpenSSH on Windows and Hyper-V.
● On the Discovery and Inventory Schedules pages, the status of a scheduled job is indicated as Queued in the
STATUS column. However, the same status is indicated as Scheduled on the Jobs page.
● By default, the last discovered IP of a device is used by OpenManage Enterprise for performing all operations. To make
any IP change effective, you must rediscover the device.
● For third party devices, you might see duplicate entries if they are discovered using multiple protocols. This duplication
can be corrected by deleting the entries and rediscovering the device(s) using only the IPMI protocol.
By using the Discovery feature, you can:
● View, add, and remove devices from the global exclusion list. See Global exclusion of ranges on page 46.
● Create, run, edit, delete, and stop the device discovery jobs.
Related tasks
Delete a device discovery job on page 51
View device discovery job details on page 45
Stop a device discovery job on page 46
Run a device discovery job on page 45
Specify discovery mode for creating a server discovery job on page 47
Create customized device discovery job protocol for servers –Additional settings for discovery protocols on page 47
Specify discovery mode for creating a Dell storage discovery job on page 49
Create customized device discovery job protocol for SNMP devices on page 50
Specify discovery mode for creating a MULTIPLE protocol discovery job on page 51
Edit a device discovery job on page 45
Topics:
• Discover servers automatically by using the server-initiated discovery feature
• Create a device discovery job
• Protocol support matrix for discovering devices
• View device discovery job details
• Edit a device discovery job
• Run a device discovery job
• Stop a device discovery job
• Specify multiple devices by importing data from the .csv file
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