Users Guide

Discovering devices for monitoring or

management

NOTE: To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary user privileges. See Role-based

OpenManage Enterprise user privileges.

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: MX7000 chassis is not discovered when you try to discover by using the OpenManage Enterprise—TechRelease

version. After you upgrade to OpenManage Enterprise version 3.0, the same MX7000 chassis is discovered. However,

the features available are limited. It is recommended to create a discovery task for MX7000 chassis in OpenManage

Enterprise version 3.0 after the upgrade is complete.

NOTE: 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.

NOTE: 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.

By using the Discovery feature, you can:

• View, add, and remove devices from the global exclusion list. See Globally excluding devices.

• Create, run, edit, delete, and stop the device discovery jobs.

Related tasks

Delete a device discovery job

View device discovery job details

Stop a device discovery job

Run a device discovery job

Specify discovery mode for creating a server discovery job

Create customized device discovery job protocol for servers–Additional settings for discovery protocols

Specify discovery mode for creating a Dell storage and network switch discovery job

Create customized device discovery job protocol for SNMP devices

Specify discovery mode for creating a MULTIPLE protocol discovery job

Edit a device discovery job

Topics:

• 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

• Globally excluding devices

• Specify discovery mode for creating a server discovery job

• Create customized device discovery job protocol for servers–Additional settings for discovery protocols

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