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5 Error Logging Updates in Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.2 | 276
1 Improved error logging—Example scenarios
Typical failure scenarios for discovery and onboarding tasks, along with screenshots of the relevant error-
logging message screens, follow.
1.1 Discovery task
The most common reasons for the failure of a discovery task are:
 Device does not exist at the given IP
 Device exists, but the wrong protocol is used to discover it
 Device exists, but invalid are used credentials to discover it
1.1.1 Device does not exist at the given IP
Discovery can fail because the target device is not present at the given IP, or the device is present, but an
incorrect IP is used to discover it. When discovery fails, an error message is displayed on the Task
Execution History Details window:
OpenManage Enterprise 3.2 discovery task error: device does not exist at the given IP address
1.1.2 Incorrect protocol used to discover an existing device
Sometimes discovery fails when an incorrect protocol is used to discover an existing target device. For
example, if an SNMP protocol is used to discover a server that uses WSMAN, the discovery task fails, and
the following error message is displayed in the Task Execution History Details window: