Users Guide

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Discovering and Inventorying Devices
Perform Discovery and Inventory to manage your network devices.
Related link
Creating a Discovery and Inventory Task
Viewing Congured Discovery and Inventory Ranges
Scheduling Discovery
Scheduling Inventory
Excluding Ranges
Supported Devices, Protocols, and Features Matrix—SNMP, WMI, and Ws-Man
Supported Devices, Protocols, and Features Matrix—SNMP, WMI, and
Ws-Man
NOTE: For a description of the features listed in the following table, see Legend and Denitions.
Table 11. Supported Devices, Protocols (SNMP, WMI, Ws-Man), and Features Matrix
Protocol / Mechanism Simple Network
Management Protocol
(SNMP)
Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI)
Web Services-
Management (WS-Man)
Servers with
OpenManage Server
Administrator
installed
Windows /
Hyper‑V
Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
Monitoring
Traps/alerts
Application launch
• OpenManage Server
Administrator console
• RAC
• Remote desktop
• System update
Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
Monitoring
Application launch
• OpenManage Server
Administrator console
• Remote desktop
• System update
Not supported
Linux/ VMware
ESX
Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
Monitoring
Traps/alerts
Application launch
• OpenManage Server
Administrator console
• RAC
Not supported Not supported
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