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 on page 14.
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: 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.
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 on page 109.
• Create, run, edit, delete, and stop the device discovery jobs.
Related tasks
Delete a device discovery job on page 114
View device discovery job details on page 108
Stop a device discovery job on page 109
Run a device discovery job on page 109
Specify discovery mode for creating a server discovery job on page 110
Create customized device discovery job protocol for servers –Additional settings for discovery protocols on page 111
Specify discovery mode for creating a Dell storage discovery job on page 113
Create customized device discovery job protocol for SNMP devices on page 114
Specify discovery mode for creating a MULTIPLE protocol discovery job on page 114
Edit a device discovery job on page 108
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
• Globally excluding devices
• Specify discovery mode for creating a server discovery job
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